Deliverance from Error and Mystical Union with the Almighty

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Table of Contents
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Translator's Introduction
Muhammad Abulaylah
Life of Al-Ghazali 1
Intellectual Milieu 14
Translations and Editions 18
Content and Value 21
Renown 24
Editor's Introduction
George F. McLean
Context 29
Life 31
Works 34
Analysis 36
Meaning 43
Impact 51
English Translation
Introduction 61
Chapter I. The Way of Sophistry and the Denial of All Knowledge 65
Chapter II. The Categories of Seekers 69
Part I. Kalam 71
Part II. Philosophy 73
Part III. The Teacher 83
Chapter III. The Sufi Mystic Way to Truth 91
Chapter IV. The True Nature of Prophecy 97
Chapter V. Why I Returned to Teaching 101
Notes 113
Index 131