Al-Maqsad al-Asna fi Sharh Asma' Allah al-Husna
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Author Information: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111), theologian, logician, jurist and mystic, was born and died in Tus in Central Asia, but spent much of his life lecturing at Baghdad or leading the life of a wandering dervish. His most celebrated work, "Revival of the Religious Sciences", has exercised a profound influence on Muslim intellectual history by exploring the mystical significance of the practices and beliefs of Islamic orthodoxy, earning him the title of "Hujjat al Islam", the `Proof of Islam'.---Translator Information: David Burrell is Theodore M. Hesburgh Professor of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Nazih Daher is Professor of Arabic at the George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Preface---Aim of the Book---Beginning of the Book---Part One---Chapter One: Explaining the meaning of 'name', 'named', and 'act of naming'---Chapter Two: Explanation of names close in meaning to one another---Chapter Three: On the one name which has different meanings---Chapter Four: On explaining that a man's perfection and happiness consist in being moulded by the moral qualities of God---Part Two---Chapter One: On Explaining the Meanings of God's Ninety-Nine Names---Epilogue to this chapter, and an apology---Chapter Two: An Explanation of how these many names resolve to the essence with seven attributes, according to the Sunni School---Chapter Three: An explanation of how all of these attributes resolve to a single essence, according to the school of the Mu`tazilites and the philosophers---Part Three---Chapter One: Explaining that the names of God are not limited to ninety-nine---Chapter Two: Explaining the benefits of enumerating ninety-nine names specifically---Chapter Three: Are the names and attributes applied to God based on divine instruction, or permitted on the basis of reason?---Notes---Index of Divine Names---Index of Persons---Bibliography---General Index