These discrepancies in their reports inspire doubts in the student, and make him inclined to believe what is related in some books, that Gayomarth was not the first man, but that he was Gomer ben Yaphet ben Noah, that he was a prince to whom a long life was given, that he settled on the Mount Dumbawand, where he founded an empire, and that finally his power became very great, whilst mankind was still living in elementary conditions, similar to those at the time of creation and of the first stage of the development of the world. Then he, and some of his children, took control of the guidance of the world. Toward the end of his life, he became tyrannical, and called himself Adam, saying: "If anybody calls me by another name than this, I shall cut off his head." ARABIC LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION AL GHAZALI'S "RESCUER FROM ERROR" "_If all the other books of Islam were destroyed, the loss would be small if but Al Ghazali's work were preserved._" MOHAMMEDAN PROVERB. "_The variety of doctrines and sects which divide men are like a deep ocean strewed with shipwrecks, from which very few escape._" AL GHAZALI IN "THE RESCUER FROM ERROR." "_Al Ghazali is the greatest, certainly the most sympathetic, figure in the history of Islam._" PROF. D. B. MACDONALD PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION (INTRODUCTION) When we move with Al Ghazali or Zamakhshari through the deeply searching paths of Arab philosophy, we feel that we are following the guidance of men whom modern thought has in no way outgrown. They lacked much of our scientific knowledge, but none of our reasoning powers. Al Ghazali has sounded all philosophy's profundities of thought, and Zamakhshari has soared to theology's highest peak of adoration.