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Ghazali (Arabic: غزالي) is an international surname and given name with different spellings (e. g. Gazzalli, Ghazzalli, Kacaly). It may refer to: Abu Hamed Mohammad ibn Mohammad Ghazali (c. 1058–1111), Persian philosopher, theologian, jurist and mystic Ahmad Ghazali (c. 1061–1123 or 1126), Persian mystic Janbirdi al-Ghazali (died 1521), Ottoman Governor of Damascus Kacem El Ghazzali, Moroccan activist Lynda Ghazzali, Malaysian porcelain painter Mohammed Ghazali, Pakistani cricketer Mohammed al-Ghazali (1917–1996), Islamic cleric and scholar Nadia Ghazzali, Moroccan-Canadian statistician and university administrator Nazem Al-Ghazali (1921–1963), Iraqi singer Rustum Ghazali, Syrian politician Youcef Ghazali, Algerian footballer Zainab al Ghazali (1917–2005), Egyptian activist Ghazali bin Marzuki, Singaporean murder victim of the Toa Payoh child murders in 1981 See also Adam Gazzaley, American neuroscientist, author, photographer, entrepreneur and inventor. Discover the Ghazzali popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ghazzali books.

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  • Al-Ghazzali On Earning a Living and Trade synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Earning a Living and Trade

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    For alGhazzali, earning a living is a virtue that attains spiritual reward as long as the living that is earned is in accord with the religious law. He emphasizes the importance of...

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Lawful, the Unlawful and the Doubtful synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Lawful, the Unlawful and the Doubtful

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    Among the mutual relations alGhazzali speaks of in The Alchemy of Happiness are the lawful, the unlawful and the doubtful.

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Remembrance of God Most High synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Remembrance of God Most High

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali describes true nature of remembrance, the merits of exultation, glorification, praise, blessing and asking forgiveness as well as the rules of supplication. He then give...

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Miserliness and Greed synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Miserliness and Greed

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali speaks on the repugnance of love for wealth as well as when having wealth is praiseworthy, the harm of covetousness and greed and the benefit of contentment, the virtue ...

  • Al Ghazzali On Poverty and Asceticism synopsis, comments

    Al Ghazzali On Poverty and Asceticism

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali discusses the true nature of spiritual poverty as contentment, the rules of spiritual poverty along with the true nature of asceticism and its degrees.

  • Al-Ghazzali On Trust and the Unity of God synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Trust and the Unity of God

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    What is the virtue of trust and the true nature upon which trust is built? What are the degrees of trust and the acts of trust? How does one earn and acquire benefit? How does one ...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Private Worship synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Private Worship

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali discusses the periods of the day and that the divisions of the night are three for private worship.

  • Al-Ghazzali On Formal Prayer synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Formal Prayer

    Jay R. Crook

    AlGhazzali discusses the kinds of external purification, clean and unclean water, six things disliked in ablution, and the etiquette of the beard and the mustache. 

  • Al-Ghazzali On Knowing Yourself synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Knowing Yourself

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali begins his masterful Alchemy of Happiness with this topic based on the famous Tradition of the Prophet, “One who knows one’s self, knows one’s Lord.” In alGhazzali’s vie...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Meditation synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Meditation

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali discusses the virtues and true nature of mediation and why it is necessary. One type of meditation that he recommends is to meditate on the wonders of God’s creation.

  • The Confessions of Al Ghazzali synopsis, comments

    The Confessions of Al Ghazzali

    Mohammed Al-Ghazzali

    I then examined what knowledge I possessed, and discovered that in none of it, with the exception of senseperceptions and necessary principles, did I enjoy that degree of certitude...

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Quest for Knowledge synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Quest for Knowledge

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    Speaking from the Islamic tradition, alGhazzali emphasizes that ignorance is not acceptable in religion and that no work is more honorable than gaining knowledge.

  • Al-Ghazzali On Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali ends the Alchemy of Happiness with this chapter and the Fourth Pillar: The Deliverers.

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Etiquette of Eating synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Etiquette of Eating

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali recommends following the example of the Prophet in order to learn and practice the etiquette of eating. This includes what to do before eating, at the time of eating, dr...

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of the Harms of the Tongue synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of the Harms of the Tongue

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali speaks out against the harms of the tongue like lying and backbiting or maliciously damaging another's reputation as destroyers of one's achieving a good disposition. He...

  • The Confessions of Al Ghazzali synopsis, comments

    The Confessions of Al Ghazzali

    Ghazzali

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  • Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Love of Power and Control synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Love of Power and Control

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    The treatment of the love of power and control according to alGhazzali involves first understanding the true nature of the love of power and then treating it. He also discusses the...

  • Al Ghazzali On the Etiquette of Eating synopsis, comments

    Al Ghazzali On the Etiquette of Eating

    Muhammad Ghazzali Tusi

    AlGhazzali recommends following the example of the Prophet in order to learn and practice the etiquette of eating. This includes what to do before eating, at the time of eating, dr...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Truthfulness and Sincerity synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Truthfulness and Sincerity

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali describes the concept of intention in great detail, its true nature and how the intention of the believer is better than his deed. He explores whisperings of the self, e...

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Duties of Brotherhood synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Duties of Brotherhood

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    For alGhazzali, the duties of friendship and brotherhood in association with people include that friendship be for the sake of true love of God Most High. He describes enmity for t...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Knowing God synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Knowing God

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali begins his masterful Alchemy of Happiness with the topic based on the famous Tradition of the Prophet, "One who knows one's self, knows one's Lord."

  • Al-Ghazzali On Quranic Recitation synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Quranic Recitation

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali describes the recitation of the negligent along with six outer and six inner rules of recitation.

  • Al-Ghazzali on Being a Muslim synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali on Being a Muslim

    Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali

    On Being a Muslim addresses themes of the pillars of Islam including on Attaining Orthodox Belief, Prescribed Purity, Prescribed Prayer, Prescribed Fasting, Pilgrimage, Purifying A...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Formal Prayer from the Acts of Worship synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Formal Prayer from the Acts of Worship

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali explains the external as well as internal aspects of formal prayer (salat) as well as the true nature of the Recitation of the Quran and Remembrance of God in the formal...

  • Al Ghazzali On Knowing This World synopsis, comments

    Al Ghazzali On Knowing This World

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    This is the third and fourth topic of the Introduction of alGhazzali to his masterful work Alchemy of Happiness. In addition to knowing yourself and God, you need to have some idea...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Reckoning and Guarding synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Reckoning and Guarding

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    In this work, alGhazzali discusses vigilance and reckoning one's accounts with oneself. He includes a discussion of the vigilance of the truly righteous and how one punishes onesel...

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Ignorance synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Ignorance

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    Ignorance produces heedlessness, error and delusion according to alGhazzali. He deals with the treatment of heedlessness, error and selfdelusion or vanity. This is Book XXX of Part...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Listening to Music synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Listening to Music

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    The Chapter On LIstening to Music  is one of the subjects among the Second Pillar of the Alchemy of Happiness, Mutual Relations. alGhazzali has a most interesting point of vie...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Disciplining the Self synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Disciplining the Self

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali places great emphasis on the virtue and spiritual reward of having a good disposition. He also discusses how to recognize the sicknesses of the spiritual heart, the sign...

  • The Confessions of Al Ghazzali synopsis, comments

    The Confessions of Al Ghazzali

    Mohammed Al-Ghazzali

    Aboû Hâmid Muhammed Ibn Muhammad Al Ghazzali was born in the city of Tus in Khorassan, A.D.1058, one year after the great poet and freethinker Abu’ l’ Alā died. He was the son of a...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Love, Longing and Contentment synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Love, Longing and Contentment

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    Among the virtues alGhazzali speaks of in The Alchemy of Happiness are love, longing and contentment. They are among the Deliverers.

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Purifying Alms synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Purifying Alms

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali discusses the different kinds of purifying alms or poor rate, how to give it and the category of recipients. Along with explaining the inmost secrets of giving the poor ...

  • Some religious and moral teachings of Al-Ghazzali synopsis, comments

    Some religious and moral teachings of Al-Ghazzali

    Ghazzali

    With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are w...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Fasting and Its Rules synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Fasting and Its Rules

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    The Chapter on Fasting and its Rules is one of the subjects among the First Pillar of the Alchemy of Happiness, Acts of Worship.

  • Al-Ghazzali On Sufism synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Sufism

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    In describing Sufism, alGhazzali speaks of the benefits of seclusion or withdrawal from the material world along with its detriments. He then describes the rules of seclusion.

  • Al-Ghazzali On Marriage synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Marriage

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    In Book XII of Part Two of the Alchemy of Happiness entitled On Mutual Relations, AlGhazzali discusses the benefits and harms of marriage, the manner of contract and its rules, the...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Hope and Fear synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Hope and Fear

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    The Chapter on Hope and Fear is one of the subjects among the Fourth Pillar of the Alchemy of Happiness, the Deliverers.

  • Al-Ghazzali On Conduct On a Journey synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Conduct On a Journey

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali describes five journeys: The journey in the search for knowledge; the journey for worship of God; the journey away from attachment to worldly things; the journey for tra...

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Pilgrimage synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Pilgrimage

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali discusses the different kinds of purifying alms or poor rate, how to give it and the category of recipients. Along with explaining the inmost secrets of giving the poor ...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Governance and the Management of the State synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Governance and the Management of the State

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    The Chapter on Governance and Management of the State is one of the subjects among the Second Pillar of the Alchemy of Happiness, Mutual Relations.

  • Al-Ghazzali On Repentance synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Repentance

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    What is the virtue of repentance and its spiritual reward? AlGhazzali discusses the true nature of repentance, how repentance is a religious duty, how God accepts repentance, minor...

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of the Lust of the Stomach and Sexual Organs synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of the Lust of the Stomach and Sexual Organs

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    AlGhazzali discusses the obstacles on the path of faith by offering methods of treatment of the lust of the stomach and the sexual organs as well as the inner mystery of the greate...

  • Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Hypocrisy synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Hypocrisy

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    Acts by which people willfully deceive are introduced by alGhazzali along with the degrees of hypocrisy, a discussion of hidden hypocrisy, the type of hypocrisy which nullifies goo...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Enjoining Good and Forbidding Wrong synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Enjoining Good and Forbidding Wrong

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali & Jay R. Crook

    AlGhazzali addresses the necessity of enjoining good (amr almaruf) and forbidding wrong (nahy an almunkar), the conditions of safeguarding public morality, the fear of the conseque...

  • Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali synopsis, comments

    Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali

    Mohammed Al-Ghazzali

    The Comparative Study of Religions, interesting as a form of intellectual research, has for many a further value in the influence it may exert upon the widening and the deepening o...

  • Al-Ghazzali On Attaining Orthodox Belief synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Attaining Orthodox Belief

    Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

    Knowing and believing in the Unity of God and Messengership of Muhammad is the beginning of the Alchemy of Happiness’ First Pillar: The Acts of Worship. 

  • Al-Ghazzali On Patience and Gratitude synopsis, comments

    Al-Ghazzali On Patience and Gratitude

    AlGhazzali discusses the virtues of patience and gratitude in great detail using examples from the Quran and the Traditions (ahadith). Patience is considered to be half of faith an...