al-Khulasa (Khulasat al-Mukhtasar)
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About The Book
al-Khulasa is the smallest condensation in Imam al-Ghazali's celebrated descending series of Shafii fiqh manuals — al-Basit, al-Wasit, al-Wajiz, al-Khulasa. The largest (al-Basit) is the master's condensation of his teacher al-Juwayni's forty-volume Nihayat al-Matlab into thirteen; the Khulasa compresses the essentials into a single small volume suitable for memorisation. The series formed the foundation upon which all later Shafii teaching was built.
About The Author
Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Ghazali (450-505 AH / 1058-1111 CE), Hujjat al-Islam (the Proof of Islam), is among the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam. Born in Tus in Khurasan, he studied under al-Juwayni at Nishapur and rose to teach at the Nizamiyya college in Baghdad before withdrawing into a long spiritual retreat from which he emerged with Ihya Ulum al-Din. His combination of mastery in fiqh, kalam, falsafa, and tasawwuf — and his willingness to subject each to scrutiny in the light of revealed knowledge — set the pattern for later Sunni intellectual life.
عن الكتاب
"الخلاصة" (خلاصة المختصر) أَصْغَر مختصرات الإمام الغزّالي في سلسلته الفقهية الشافعية النازلة — البسيط، والوسيط، والوجيز، والخلاصة. كُلِّفَتْ سلسلتُه بناء التَّعْليم الشافعي اللاحق كلَّه. والخلاصة تُلَخِّص الجَوْهر في مجلَّدٍ صغير ميسَّر الحفظ.
عن المؤلف
الإمام أبو حامد الغزالي (٤٥٠-٥٠٥ هـ)، حجّةُ الإسلام، من أعظم مفكِّري الإسلام في كلّ عصر. وُلد بطُوس بخراسان، وتتلمذ على إمام الحرمين الجويني بنيسابور، ودَرَّس بالنظاميّة ببغداد، ثم اعتزل في رياضة روحية طويلة صنَّف بعدها "إحياء علوم الدين".
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About the author
al-Ghazali: Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (450-505 AH / 1058-1111 CE) was born in Tus, in the Khorasan region of Persia, and is remembered as one of Islam's most influential thinkers. Losing his father young, he studied at Nishapur and was appointed, while still in his thirties, to the prestigious Nizamiyya college in Baghdad. He was Shafiʿi in law and Ashʿari in creed, and his contemporaries honored him as Hujjat al-Islam, the Proof of Islam. At the height of his fame al-Ghazali passed through a profound spiritual crisis, recounted in his autobiography al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (Deliverance from Error). He abandoned his teaching post, traveled, and devoted years to the inward discipline of the Sufis before returning to instruction with a renewed purpose. His landmark work, Ihyaʾ ʿUlum al-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), reconstructs the religious life across four parts, acts of worship, social custom, the vices that ruin the soul, and the virtues that save it. In philosophy he wrote Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers), a careful critique of the Hellenistic thinkers of his age. Bridging law, theology, philosophy, and mysticism, al-Ghazali shaped the direction of Sunni thought for centuries, and his books remain widely read and translated. His many works are available here in English translation.
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