The Confessions of Al Ghazzali
By al-Ghazālī
Translated by Claud Field
John Murray, London, 1909, Wisdom of the East
First written c. 1100
In the public domain
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A short English version of al-Ghazālī’s autobiography, Deliverance from Error: his search for certainty among the theologians, philosophers and esoteric teachers, his crisis in Baghdad, and his discovery that the Sufis alone had reached what he sought.
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al-Ghazālī. The Confessions of Al Ghazzali: al-Munqidh min al-Ḍalāl (Deliverance from Error). Translated by Claud Field. Wisdom of the East. John Murray, London, 1909.
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