RELIGION
242 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $24.95 (US $24.95) (CA $27.95)
Publication Date: April 2010
ISBN 9781887752312
Rights: WOR X UK
Fons Vitae (Apr 2010)
The 40-book Ihya' 'Ulum-Al Din—Revival of the Religious Sciences—has for centuries been the most read work in the Muslim world after the Qur’an, and this key volume of the Ihya is considered by many to be the Summa Theologica of Islam. These traditional teaching stories, which use the theme of the heart as a mirror, illustrate key tenets of Islam on the requirements of religion, living in society, and the inner life of the soul.
Al-Ghazali was a theologian, a logician, a jurist, and a mystic. He was the author of more than 100 books of Islamic scholarship, and is regarded by many as the renewer of the fifth Muslim century. Walter James Skellie was a Presbyterian minister who earned a PhD in Arabic studies from the Hartford Seminary Foundation and served on missions in the