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Al-Ghazzālī’s Mishkāt al-Anwār

The Niche for Lights

By al-Ghazālī

First written c. 1106

About this book

Gairdner’s translation, with an introduction, of al-Ghazālī’s short treatise on the Qurʾānic Verse of Light and the tradition of the seventy thousand veils, describing God as the one true light and the ascent of the soul through degrees of light.

The edition

Title
Al-Ghazzālī’s Mishkāt al-Anwār: The Niche for Lights
Translated by
W. H. T. Gairdner
Publisher
Royal Asiatic Society, London
Year
1924
Edition
Asiatic Society Monographs

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Period

Islamic Golden Age750 CE to 1258 CE

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