ea Pa eae hd: Pe ° UE 2B Sa! i aC ae oC LS bai . keaa ‘ mode CJ Bt a ) Oa, bt AS THE ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY OF AL-GHAZZALI Prof. M. UMARUDDINnt GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA CENTRAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL LIBRARY ACCESSION NO. [G7 85 cata, Xo 171.0993] ACG [lbma DEA — — WU OG ny oan pee eee “aspects and speculations of Al-Ghazzali, who has, perhaps more than any one else, deeply influenced the course of Muslim thinking during the last eight hundred years. Al-Ghazzalj happened to live in the most stormy days of religious and philosophical polemics and controversies which had rent asundet the great commonwealth of the Muslim peoples in the world. The book is a vivid record of that age \ and of the endeavours of Al-Ghazzili in recreating : the Islamic faith and redeeming the Muslims of his day and the posterity from folly and igno- rance. It has been generally held that Al-Ghazzali believed in the finitude of thought and worked out a system of mysticism which was unnatural and foreign to Islim. The author conclusively proves that the charges are unjustified. The final good and happiness of man, according to Al-Ghazzali, consists in the perfect realization of the self, which depends on the most harmon‘ous and equable inter- relation between intellect, self-asseition and appeti- tion, The book has been written in a clear and lucid style, embodying the latest scientific method and phraseology, and is equally addressed to the lay reader as well as the modern scholar.THE ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY OF AL-GHAZZALI BY Pror. M. UMARUDDIN, M.A. (Phil.), M.A. (Arab.), M.A. (Pers.) Fellow, Muslim University (1927-29) Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology Dean, Faculty of Arts Muslim University, Aligarh ALIGARH, 1962 MUNSH! RAS MANONAR LAL Oriental & Fv ga Book-Sellers, P R.1165 Nat Sarak, DELHM-6.