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Mishkat Al-Anwar
Al-Ghazzali · Islam · c. 1106 CE
Translated by W. H. T. Gairdner
15 chapters
The Niche for Lights — Al-Ghazzali's esoteric treatise on divine illumination and the Light Verse of the Quran.
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Contents
- 1AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- 2INTRODUCTION
- 3Introduction: The Treatise and Its Veiled Mysteries
- 4Introduction: A Ghazzalian Philosophy of Religion
- 5Introduction: Problems Raised by the Foregoing
- 6Introduction: The Vicegerent in Ibn Rushd and Ibn Tufail
- 7Introduction: One Solution of the Vicegerent Problem
- 8Introduction: Another Solution
- 9Introduction: Al-Ghazzali and the Seven Spheres
- 10Introduction: Anthropomorphism and Theomorphism
- 11Introduction: Pantheism and Al-Ghazzali
- 12Al-Ghazzali's Prologue
- 13Part I: Light and Lights - Preliminary Studies
- 14Part II: The Science of Symbolism
- 15Part III: The Light-Verse and Veils Tradition
