Deliverance from Error
Confessions of Al-Ghazali (Deliverance from Error)
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First Translation
This text has not previously been translated into English.
The work 'Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal' (Deliverance from Error) by Al-Ghazali has been translated into English multiple times. While the Claud Field translation (1909) titled 'The Confessions of Al Ghazzali' was the first complete English translation, several modern scholarly translations exist, including those by W. Montgomery Watt (1953) and Richard Joseph McCarthy (1980).
Related translations found:
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali, trans. Claud Field (1909) [complete] source
The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali, trans. W. Montgomery Watt (1953) [complete]
Freedom and Fulfillment: An Annotated Translation of Al-Ghazali's al-Munqidh min al-Dalal, trans. Richard Joseph McCarthy (1980) [complete]
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When a world-renowned philosopher realizes his knowledge is built on sand, he risks everything to find a truth that cannot be shaken. Follow Al-Ghazali’s harrowing journey from the heights of academic prestige to the depths of total skepticism, and ultimately to a profound 'deliverance' through divine illumination.
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