Al-Ghazali: Proper Conduct When Listening to Music and the Experience of Ecstasy – Book 18

Product Description   Table of Contents Al-Ghazālī’s Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences Translator’s Introduction THE BOOK OF PROPER CONDUCT WHEN LISTENING TO MUSIC AND THE EXPERIENCE OF ECSTASY PART I: AN ACCOUNT OF THE DIFFERENCES AMONG RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS ON THE PERMISSIBILITY OF LISTENING TO MUSIC AND AN ENQUIRY INTO A PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ISSUE CHAPTER ONE: An Exposition of the Views of Religious Scholars and the Sufis as to whether it is Lawful or Unlawful  CHAPTER TWO: An Exposition of the Evidence that Listening to Music is Permissible CHAPTER THREE: An Exposition of the Arguments of Those who Claim that Listening to Music is Unlawful and Responses to Them PART II: ON THE EFFECTS OF LISTENING TO MUSIC AND THEIR PROPER CONDUCT THE FIRST STAGE: Understanding THE SECOND STAGE: After Understanding and Association Comes Ecstasy THE THIRD STAGE: The Inward and Outward Proper Conduct when Listening to Music and of the Effects of Ecstasy, which Deserve Praise and which Deserve Censure Notes Appendix: Persons Cited in the Text Bibliography Index to Qur’anic Quotations General Index Contributors Abū Hamid al-Ghazālī (450-505/1058-1111), theologian, logician, jurist and mystic, was born and died in Tüs in Central Asia, but spent much of his life lecturing in Baghdad or leading the life of a wandering Sufi. His most celebrated work, Revival of the Religious Sciences, has exercised a profound influence on Muslim intellectual history by exploring the mystical significance of the practices and beliefs of Islamic orthodoxy, earning him the title of Hujjat al Islam, the ‘Proof of Islam’. Anthony H. Johns, Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, held a chair in the Faculty of Asian Studies from 1963 to 1993, and is a specialist in Sufism in the Malay world, Islamic history and institutions, and the foundation texts of Islam. In the course of his distinguished career, Prof Johns has published significantly on the Qur’an and on Qur’anic exegesis.