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The niche of lights = Mishkāt al-anwār / al-Ghazālī ; a parallel English-Arabic text translated, introduced, and annotated by David Buchman

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Arabic Original language: Arabic Series: Islamic translation seriesPublication details: Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press, 1998Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxiv, 80, 80 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0842523537
  • 9780842523530
Other title:
  • Mishkāt al-anwār
Uniform titles:
  • Mishkāt al-anwār. English & Arabic
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 297.4 B919N  22
LOC classification:
  • BP189.26 .G3913 1998
Contents:
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
Summary: "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
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 297.4 B919N (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 063625

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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

"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

English and Arabic on facing pages

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