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Bidayat al-Hidaya

al-Ghazali(Auth.) · Scientific Committee of Dar al-Minhaj Research and Verification Center (Ed.)
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Bidayat al-Hidaya is Imam al-Ghazali's practical beginner's manual on the daily disciplines of worship and the cultivation of character.

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About The Book

Bidayat al-Hidaya is Imam al-Ghazali's practical beginner's manual on the daily disciplines of worship and the cultivation of character. Composed before the Ihya as a seed-text for it, the work covers the practical disciplines that the wayfarer needs from the moment he wakes: the manners of rising, of wudu, of salat, of the daily Quran portion, of dealing with people, of work, of eating, of sleep — and the inner disciplines that accompany them.

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

"بداية الهداية" للإمام الغزالي دليلٌ عَمَلي للمبتدئ في عبادات اليوم وآداب النفس. كَتَبَه قبل "الإحياء" كأنّما هو بَذْره الأوّل. يتناول الكتابُ الآداب العملية التي يحتاجها السالك من ساعة استيقاظه.

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.

About the editor

Scientific Committee of Dar al-Minhaj Research and Verification Center: The Scientific Committee of Dar al-Minhaj Research and Verification Center is the collective scholarly body responsible for the tahqiq and editorial production at Dar al-Minhaj, a Saudi-based Arabic Islamic publishing house with a focus on classical Sunni and Shafii texts. The committee oversees the critical editing, manuscript verification, annotation, and preparation of works for publication in the publisher's Arabic series. Among the titles the committee has edited are al-Muqaddima al-Hadramiyya (Ba Fadl), al-Najm al-Wahhaj fi Sharh al-Minhaj (al-Damiri), Kitab al-Tanbih fi al-Fiqh al-Shafii (al-Shirazi), al-Yaqut al-Nafis fi Madhhab Ibn Idris (al-Shatiri), Bidayat al-Hidaya (al-Ghazali), and Tarikh al-Khulafa (al-Suyuti), among others. The committee's editorial work represents a significant contribution to the dissemination of classical Islamic learning in verified, accessible Arabic editions.

Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN 9789953498829
Binding Hardback
Publisher Dar al-Minhaj
Author al-Ghazali
Pages 240
Editor Scientific Committee of Dar al-Minhaj Research and Verification Center
Year Published 2021
Size W- | H- | D-
Number of Volumes 1
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