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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
In this work, here presented in a complete English edition
for the first time, the problem of knowing God is confronted in
an original and stimulating way. 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. Although some
of the book is rigorously analytical, the author never fails to
attract the reader with his profound mystical and ethical insights,
which, conveyed in his sincere and straightforward idiom, have made
of this book one of the perennial classics of Muslim thought, popular
among Muslims to this day.
David Burrell is Theodore M. Hesburgh Professor of Philosophy and
Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Nazih Daher is Chairman
of the Department of Asian and African Languages at the Foreign
Service Institute of the United States Department of State.
This volume won a British Book Design and Production
Award in 1993.
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