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Al-Ghazali
on Invocations and Supplications
Book IX of the Revival of the
Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
Translated by:
KOJIRO NAKAMURA
A revised edition of Kojiro Nakamura’s acclaimed
translation into English of Book IX of The Revival of the Religious
Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din). Although
prayerfulness and the remembrance of God suffuse all the formal
practices of Islam, there are times when the Muslim simply ‘sits
alone with his Lord’ to repeat formulas drawn from the Qur’an
and the sayings of the Prophet, seeking remission of his sins and
the purification of his heart. The present volume is probably the
most widely read compendium of such material, popular not only for
its comprehensiveness and beauty, but also for the analytical approach
of its author, who explores the psychological and spiritual effects
of prayer and the celebration of God’s name. The original
translation by Kojiro Nakamura, now Head of the Islamic Studies
Department at the University of Tokyo, has been substantially revised
and augmented with hadith identification.
This volume won a British Book Design and Production
Award in 1991.
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