Belief

In A Return to Purity in Creed , Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali proves, once again, to be a man of the times by striking a balance between two extremes and refocusing the common Muslim on the simplistic beauty of the Islamic doctrine as learned and transmitted by the early Muslim community. Largely debated between speculative theologians (mutakallimun) and traditionists (ahl al-hadith) for centuries, speculative theology (kalam) and figurative interpretation (ta'wil) remain a very lively source of contention among Muslims today. Traditionists have remained loyal in their opposition to rational pursuits in theology and claim the mantle of orthodoxy in creed. The speculative theologians, while...

Translated, introduced and annotated by: Michael E. Marmura Although Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali lived a relatively short life (1058-1111), he established himself as one of the most important thinkers in the history of Islam. The Incoherence of the Philosophers , written after more than a decade of travel and ascetic contemplation, contends that while such Muslim philosophers as Avicenna boasted of unassailable arguments on matters of theology and metaphysics, they could not deliver on their claims; moreover, many of their assertions represented disguised heresy and unbelief. Despite its attempted refutation by the twelfth-century philosopher Ibn Rushd, al-Ghazali's work remains widely...

Concerning the Affirmation of Divine Oneness (Risala fi't-Tawhid) by Shaikh Wali Raslan ad-Dimashqi (d. A.H. 540) & Fath al-Rahman a commentry on the Risala by As-Shaikh Zakariyyah al-Ansari & Sharh Fath ar-Rahman by Shaikh Ali ibn Atiyya Alawan al-Hamawi  First translation into English, by Muhtar Holland.

Windows onto Faith series, focussing on God.

Imam Abu Hanifa's Al-Fiqh al-Akbar Explained by Abu ’l-Muntaha al-Maghnisawi with Selections from 'Ali al-Qari’s Commentary, including Abu Hanifa’s Kitab al-Wasiyya Al-Fiqh al-Akbar is one of the earliest texts written on Islamic creed and one of the surviving works of Abu Hanifa, the Great Imam of jurisprudence and theology. Studied for centuries in the Muslim world, Al-Fiqh al-Akbar offers a more nuanced, textured approach to understanding divine oneness ( tawhid ), the focal point of Islamic belief. It refines one’s understanding of the Creator, the messengers and divine communication, and enables one to gain much-needed insight into the realities of this life and the events of the...