TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ghazzālī,
AU  - Buchman,David
TI  - The niche of lights =: Mishkāt al-anwār 
T2  - Islamic translation series
SN  - 0842523537
AV  - BP189.26 .G3913 1998
U1  - ARCH YNDC 297.4 B919N  22
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Provo, Utah
PB  - Brigham Young University Press
KW  - Qurʼan
KW  - Sūrat al-nūr, 35
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Early works to 1800
N1  - Opposite pages bear duplicate numbering; Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-72) and index; Clarifying that the real light is God and that the name "light" for everything else is sheer metaphor, without reality -- Clarifying the similitude of the niche, the lamp, the glass, the tree, the olive, and the fire -- Concerning the meaning of the Prophet's words: "God has seventy veils of light and darkness; were He to lift them, the august glories of His Face would burn up everyone whose eyesight perceived Him" -- Index of Qur'anic Verses -- Index of Hadiths and Sayings -- Index of Names and Terms
N2  - "Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's philosophical explorations covered nearly the entire spectrum of twelfth-century beliefs. Beginning his career as a skeptic, he ended it as a scholar of mysticism and orthodoxy. The Niche of Lights, written near the end of his illustrious career, advances the philosophically important idea that reason can serve as a connection between the devout and God. Al-Ghazali argues that abstracting God from the world, as he believed theologians did, was not sufficient for understanding. Exploring the boundary between philosophy and theology, The Niche of Lights seeks to understand the role of reality in the perception of the spiritual."--Publisher's description
ER  -