ALCHEMY OF HAPPINESS

Al Ghazzali
Translated by Claud Field

Octagon Press, London

Born in the year 1058 in eastern Persia, Al-Ghazzali was a philosopher and Sufi mystic, author of numerous books, and a man of pothymathic ability. The influence of Al-Ghazzali upon Christian and Islamic thinkers of the Middle Ages is becoming more and more widely documented. Known as ‘The Proof of Islam,’ Al-Ghazzali finally won acceptance for Sufism in Islam; his methods of argument and analysis are much discussed in both East and West. The Alchemy of Happiness is Al-Ghazzali’s own abridgement of his masterwork, The Revival of Religious Sciences.