PM150. The Ethical Philosophy
of al-Ghazali
By M. Umaruddin
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 348.
The book is the outcome of long thinking and laborious research in
Islamic philosophy. The author has thoroughly explored the original sources,
both in Islamic philosophy and Western thought. The book opens a new chapter
in the presentation of Islamic thought to the modern world, in particular
the fundamental aspects and speculations of al-Ghazali, who has deeply
influenced the course of Muslim thinking during the last eight hundred
years.
It has been generally held that al-Ghazali believed in the finitude
of thought and worked out a system of mysticism which was unnatural and
foreign to Islam. The author conclusively refutes the charges. The final
good and happiness of man, according to him, consists in the perfect realisation
of the self, which depends on the most harmonious and equable interrelation
between intellect, self-assertion and appetite.
ISBN NO. 969-432-134-4.