Spirituality التزكية
The inward sciences — sincerity, repentance, the diseases of the heart and their treatment in the classical manuals.
The books, level by level
Which text comes when. Start at the top unless you already read Arabic — each book says how much of it exists here.
Foundation
Bidāyat al-Hidāya
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
Al-Ghazālī’s short handbook on the shape of a day — waking, worship, company, avoiding what harms the heart. The traditional first book in the inward sciences.
PlannedAyyuhā al-Walad
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
A letter al-Ghazālī wrote to a student who asked what all his learning had been for. A few pages, and the standard answer in this tradition to the question of why knowledge without practice is a burden.
PlannedAdvanced
Nothing here yet
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