The Islamic Texts Society’s al-Ghazali Series is one of the long-term projects of the Society and aims to translate into English the major works of the great medieval theologian and mystic Muhammad Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (450-1058 AH/505-1111 AD). Of these works, The Revival of the Religions Sciences (Ihya Ulum al-Din) is widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality, and has, for centuries, been the most read work after the Qur’an in the Muslim world.
The Revival of the Religious Sciences is divided into four parts each containing ten chapters. In brief, the first part deals with knowledge and the requirements of religion—ritual purity, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage, recitation of the Qur’an, etc.; part two concentrates mostly on man and society—the manners relating to eating, marriage, earning a living, friendship, etc.; parts three and four are dedicated to the inner life of the soul and discuss first the vices that man must overcome in himself and then the virtues that he must strive to achieve. The Islamic Texts Society is working on a full translation of The Revival of the Religious Sciences.
Aside from The Revival of the Religious Sciences, the Islamic Texts Society intends to publish other translations of works by Ghazali; of these, Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God has already appeared.

Al-Ghazali on Patience and Thankfulness
Book XXXII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
Translated by: HENRY T. LITTLEJOHN
This is a translation of the thirty-second chapter of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Ghazali here defines patience and its different forms; the need for patience; the degrees of patience; and why patience is considered to be half of faith. The second part of this chapter deals with thankfulness, its nature and its blessings.

Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence
Book XXXIV of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
Translated by: ASAAD F. SHAKER
The Book of Poverty and Abstinence is the thirty-fourth chapter of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Ghazali gives definitions of what real poverty and abstinence should be and describes their closeness to patience, contentment, lack of worldliness, asceticism, trust and surrender to God.

Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity and Truthfulness
Book XXXVII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
Translated by: ASAAD F. SHAKER
The Book of Intention, Sincerity and Truthfulness is a translation of the thirty-seventh chapter of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Here Ghazali deals with the very important subject of intention which is of crucial importance in Islam and then goes on to discuss sincerity and truthfulness.

Al-Ghazali on Invocations and Supplications
Book IX of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
Translated by: KOJIRO NAKAMURA
A translation of Book IX of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. The present volume is probably the most widely read compendium of prayers. Ghazali explores the psychological and spiritual effects of prayer and the celebration of God’s name.

Al-Ghazali on the Manners Relating to Eating
Book XI of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
Translated by: DENYS JOHNSON-DAVIES
A translation of the eleventh chapter of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Ghazali expounds the manners relating to eating, and the virtues of hospitality and generosity. He also discusses abstention from food, fasting, and general health.

Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul & on Breaking the Two Desires
Books XXII and XXIII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences
(Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
Translated by: T. J. WINTER
This is a translation of the twenty-second and twenty-third chapters from The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Ghazali explains how to acquire good character traits, and describes how the sickness of the heart may be cured. He then continues to discuss the question of gluttony and sexual desire, concluding, in the words of the Prophet, that ‘the best of all matters is the middle way’.

Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death & the Afterlife
Book XL of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
Translated by: T. J. WINTER
This is a translation of the last chapter of Ghazali’s Revival of the Religious Sciences. After expounding his Sufi philosophy of death and showing the importance of the contemplation of human mortality to the mystical way of self-purification, Ghazali takes his readers through the stages of the future life.

Al-Ghazali Letter to a Disciple
Translated by: TOBIAS MAYER
An old disciple of Ghazali had studied the Islamic sciences, including the many works of his master, for most of his life. Faced with the proximity of death, he turns again to his master this time asking for a summary of all his teachings. Letter to a Disciple is Ghazali’s response.

Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God
Al-Maqsad al-Asna fi Sharh Asma’ Allah al-Husna
Translated by: D. BURRELL & N. DAHER
This book is one of the perennial classics of Muslim thought. Taking up the Prophet’s teaching that ‘Ninety-nine Beautiful Names’ are truly predicated of God, the author explores the meaning and resonance of each of these divine names, and reveals the functions they perform both in the cosmos and in the soul of the spiritual adept.