The remembrance of death and the afterlife : book XL of The revival of the religious sciences, Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn = Kitāb D̲h̲ikr al-mawt wa-mā baʻdahu /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ghazzālī, 1058-1111, author.
Edition:	2nd edition with al-G̲h̲azālī's introduction to The revival of the religious sciences.
Imprint:	Cambridge, U.K. : Islamic Texts Society, [2015] ©2015
Description:	xliv, 347 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Ghazālī series Ghazālī series.
Subject:	Islamic eschatology -- Early works to 1800. Death -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Early works to 1800. Death -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Islamic eschatology. Early works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11804045

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Varying Form of Title:	Kitāb D̲h̲ikr al-mawt wa-mā baʻdah Revival of the religious sciences
Other authors / contributors:	Winter, Timothy, 1960- translator, writer of introduction.
ISBN:	9781911141006 1911141007 9781911141013 1911141015
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Text in English, translated from the Arabic.
Summary:	"This is the first English translation of a key section of al-Ghazali's Revival of the Religious Sciences, (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din), widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality. Its theme is of universal interest: death, and the life to come. After expounding his Sufi philosophy of death, and showing the importance of the contemplation of human morality to the mystical way of self-purification, al-Ghazali's takes his readers through the stages of the future life: the vision of the Angels of the Grave, the Resurrection, the Intercession of the Prophets, and finally, the torments of Hell, the delights of Paradise, and-for the elect-the beatific vision of God's Countenance. In this new edition, the Islamic Texts Society has included a translation of Imam Ghazali's own Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences which gives the reasons that caused him to write the work, the structure of the whole of the Revival and places each of the chapters in the context of the others."

Table of Contents:

On the remembrance of death, and an encouragement to remember it abundantly
On lengthy hopes, and merit of briefs hopes, together with the reason for their prolongation, and how this may be cured
On the agonies and violence of death, and the states preferable upon its advent
On the death of the emissary of God (may God bless him and grant him peace), and the rightly-guided Caliphs after him
On the sayings of the Caliphs, princes and righteous men when nearing death
On the sayings of the Gnostics at funerals and cemeteries, and the legal verdict concerning the visitation of graves
On the true nature of death, and what the dead man undergoes in the grave prior to the blast on the trump
On the states of the dead which have been known through unveiling (mukās̲h̲afa) in dreams.

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