A Moslem seeker after God : $b showing Islam at its best in the life and teaching of al-Ghazali, mystic and theologian of the eleventh century
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Osborn, Robert Durie—Islam Under the Khalifs of Baghdad, London, 1878.
Saladin, H.—Manuel d’art Musulman, Paris, 1907, Vol. I.
Tyrwitt, W. S. S.—Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus, London, 1907.
B. TRANSLATIONS OF AL-GHAZALI’S WORKS
_Hebrew._
Makasid al Falasifah—De’ot ha-Pilusufim—Isaac Albalag, 13th C.
— Kawwanot ha-Pilusufim—Judah Nathan, 14th C.
Tahafut al-Falasifah—Happalat ha-Pilusufim—Zerahiah ha-Levy, 1411.
Ma’amar bi-Teshubot She’elot Nish’al Mehem (Answers to Philanthropical
Questions)—H. Malter, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1897; also called Kawwanot
ha-Kawwanot.
— Mozene ha-’Iyyunin—Jacob ben Makir (d. 1308).
Mizan al-ʿAmal—Mozen Zedek—Abraham Ibn Hazdai ben Samuel ha-Levy of
Barcelona, ed. J. Goldenthal, Leipsic, 1839.
Mishkat al-Anwar fi Riyad al-Azhar bi-Taufik al-Anhar—Maskit ha-Orot
be-Pardes ha-Nizzanim—Isaac ben Joseph Alfasi.
_Latin._
Maqasid Falasifa—Logica et Philosophia—Dom. Gundisalvi, Venetiæ, 1506.
_German._
Kitab aiyuha ’l walad—O Kind! Die berühmte ethische Abhandlung Ghazali’s
arab. u. deutsch, v. Hammer-Purgstall, Wien, 1838.
Kitab Tahafut al Falasifa—Die Widersprüche der Philosophie nach
Al-Ghazzali und ihr Ausgleich durch Ibn Rushd, Strassburg, 1894.
Antworten auf Fragen, die an ihn gerichtet wurden, hebr. u. arab. Text
mit deutschen übers. Erklarung und Glossen v. H. Malter, Frankfurt, 1896.
Ihya ʾulum id Din—German translation in course of preparation by H. Bauer.
_French._
Ad durra al fakhira fi kasf ʾulum al akhira—La Perle precieuse de
Ghazali, ed. par L. Gautier, Geneve, 1878.
Al munqidh min ad dhalal—ed. Schmolders, Essai sur les ecoles
philosophiques chez les Arabes, Paris, 1842. Translated by Barbier de
Meynard, 1877, in Journal Asiatique, vol. ix.
_English._
Kimiya as-saaʾda—The Alchemy of Happiness—H. A. Homes, Albany, N. Y.,
1873.
The Alchemy of Happiness—Claud Field, London, 1908.
The Confessions of Al-Ghazali—Claud Field, London, 1909.
_Turkish._
There are two manuscript translations of Al-Ghazali’s Nasaʾih-ul-Muluk in
Turkish. Also an Arabic version of the Persian original. (See Browne’s
Handlist of Cambridge University Library Arabic MSS. Nos. 1185 and 220.)
The Alchemy of Happiness is also widely known in a Turkish version from
which the earliest English version by Homes was made.
C. LIST OF AL-GHAZALI’S WORKS
In Arabic alphabetical order according to As-Subqi, Al-Murtadha (Vol. I,
pp. 41-83), and other sources.