Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires by Abdal Hakim Murad, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires

Abdal Hakim Murad, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

370 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective medium-paced

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The spiritual life in Islam begins with riyadat al-nafs, the inner warfare against the ego. Distracted and polluted by worldliness, the lower self has a tendency to drag the human creature down into arrogance and vice. Only by a powerful effort of...

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