{"product_id":"the-alchemy-of-happiness-9781596053694","title":"The Alchemy of Happiness","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Al-Ghazzali | Ghazzali | Claud Field\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cosimo Classics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Middle East - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose who deny the reality of the ecstasies and other spiritual experiences of the Sufis merely betray their own narrow-mindedness and shallow insight. -from \"Concerning Music and Dancing\" One of the great works of mystical religious literature, the Kimiya-i-Sa'adaat strove to bring man closer to understanding God by helping him understand himself. These excerpts from that work, by a strikingly original thinker on Islam who lived and wrote in the 11th century, were first published in 1910, and serve as a potent reminder of how powerful an influence Al-Ghazzali had upon religious philosophers of the Middle Ages, both Christian and Islamic. With its wise and warmly humanistic outlook, this little book may well foster a new measure of understanding in the current philosophical battle between the religious traditions of East and West. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Field's Shadows Cast Before and Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages. Iranian theologian AL-GHAZALI (1058-1111) was medieval Islam's most prominent scholar and philosopher. CLAUD FIELD is also author of Mystics and Saints of Islam, Heroes of Missionary Enterprise, and Persian Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosimo Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47613447078039,"sku":"9781596053694","price":933.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781596053694.webp?v=1775085261","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-alchemy-of-happiness-9781596053694","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}