Revival of the Religious Sciences

After becomingan eminent professor at the Niẓāmiyyah seminaryin Baghdad, al-Ghazālī was beset by a deep spiritual crisis which forced himto abandon his career and withdraw from public life. It is in this period ofretreat, meditation and soul-searching, which lasted ten years, that he wrotehis major work, Revival of the Religious Sciences. In this book, hesought to breathe life into the religious knowledge which were, by his time,mostly sought to gain status, fame and worldly comfort. In it, he also draws ablueprint by means of which one first understands the relationship between oneand Allah, and then learns how to live an exemplary life in this world inpreparation for the afterlife. With its lucid prose and accessible style, thepresent translation – based on the abridgement of the Syrian scholar Ṣāliḥ Aḥmad al-Shāmī – makes such work eminently accessible to everyone.