{"product_id":"9781596053694","title":"The Alchemy Of Happiness","description":"Those who deny the reality of the ecstasies and other spiritual experiences of the Sufis merely betray their own narrow-mindedness and shallow insight.\u003cbr\u003e-from \"Concerning Music and Dancing\"\u003cp\u003eOne of the great works of mystical religious literature, the Kimiya-i-Sa'adaat strove to bring man closer to understanding God by helping him understand himself. These excerpts from that work, by a strikingly original thinker on Islam who lived and wrote in the 11th century, were first published in 1910, and serve as a potent reminder of how powerful an influence Al-Ghazzali had upon religious philosophers of the Middle Ages, both Christian and Islamic. With its wise and warmly humanistic outlook, this little book may well foster a new measure of understanding in the current philosophical battle between the religious traditions of East and West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso available from Cosimo Classics: Field's Shadows Cast Before and Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIranian theologian AL-GHAZALI (1058-1111) was medieval Islam's most prominent scholar and philosopher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCLAUD FIELD is also author of Mystics and Saints of Islam, Heroes of Missionary Enterprise, and Persian Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosimo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50079269978352,"sku":"9781596053694","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781596053694","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}