The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife: Book XL of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ghazali Series, Bk. 40)

This is the first English translation of the last chapter of Al-Ghazali's Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din), widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality. 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 thr More »