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.

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 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-Shafi'i’s Risala
Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence
Translated by: MAJID KHADDURI
Written in the second Islamic century by al-Imam al-Shafi'i (d. 204AH/ 820AD), the founder of one of the four Sunni schools of law, this important work gives the fundamental principles of Islamic jurisprudence, and its influence continues to the present day.

Al-Nawawi’s Manual of Islam
Translated by: NUH HA MIM KELLER
Imam Nawawi (d. 676AH/1277AD) composed al-Maqasid as a synopsis of the practical requirements of Islam - faith, purification, the prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage - for students to memorise. The handbook’s clear and concise style will help anyone seeking to learn the essentials of Islamic practice and spirituality from a reliable, traditional source.