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Maqasid al-falasifah (Aims of the Philosophers) {مقاصد الفلاسفة}

By Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (450-505 AH)

Full title: Maqasid al-falasifah : fi al-mantiq wa-al-hikmah al-ilahiyah wa-al-hikmah al-tabi‘iyah

Arabic

• Best Available edition: (Misr: al-Matba‘ah al-Mahmudiyah al-Tijariyah bi-al-Azhar, [Cairo]1936.) Muhyi al-Din Sabri al-Kurdi Arabic Edition. (PDF).
• M. Bejou has published (Damascus: 2000) the above edition in which he corrected printing errors (misplaced pages) with new typesetting, illustrations and explanatory notes. (Arabic PDF)
• Aims of the Philosophers (Arabic E-text) with introduction and commentary by S. Dunya (PDF) Dar al-ma‘arif (Cairo, 1965). With an introduction and annotation, textual variation is embedded in the text within brackets.

English

• Partial English Translation from A Hebrew translation: THE LOGICAL PART OF AL-GHAZALI'S MAQASID AL-FALASIFA, IN AN ANONYMOUS HEBREW TRANSLATION WITH THE HEBREW COMMENTARY OF MOSES OF NARBONNE, EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION AND TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. CHERTOFF, GERSHON BARUCH, PHD. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1952. 408 pp. (0004166) (PDF)

Latin

• An old Latin translation. (PDF) the Complete edition.

Bidayat al-hidayah (Beginning of Guidance) {بداية الهداية}

By Imam Ghazali {امام غزالي}

Arabic Editions

• Bidayat al-hidayah fi al-adab wa-al-akhlaq wa-al-tasawwuf lil-Shaykh Zayn al-Din Hujjat al-Islam Abi Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazzali al-Tusi. Wa-yaliha al-Risalah al-wa`ziyah, al-Maktabah al-Tijariyah al-Kubrá (Cairo, N.D. 19??).

• Bidayat al-hidayah edited by Muhammad Saud al-Ma'yni, (Baghdad, 1988) (PDF)

• Bidayat al-hidayah, edited by Abdelhamid Muhammad al-Darwish, Dar Sader, Beirut 1998 (PDF)

• Bidayat al-hidayah (PDF) ed. by Hajjar, 2001.

• Bidayat al-hidayah (PDF) ed. by Kasht, Cairo, 1985.

• Bidayat al-hidayah (PDF) published in India.

English

• Partially translated by W. M. Watt, who claimed that the second half as unauthentic(?) and fully translated by Muhammad Abul Qasem, self published in Malaysia. (pdf)

• Dual language edition (Arabic/English) by M. Al-Allaf. (St. Louis, 2004) (more info)

Chechen

• Chechen translation (word file)
  

German

• Hell, Joseph, and Walter Otto. 1915. Die Religion des Islam 1 Von Mohammed bis Ghazâlî. Jena: Diederichs. (PDF)

Mizan al-'amal, (Criterion of Action) {ميزان العمل}

By Imam Ghazali {امام غزالي}

• Arabic: Edited by S. Dunya in Arabic (pdf)
• Arabic: Mizan al-'amal. (Arabic html) from al-waraq site.
• Persian: A translation by A. A. Kasmm'i, Tehran, 1995. of the edition ed. by S. Dunya above. (PDF)
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• English Translation of a two sample chapters from Dunya's edition.

Other Translations (not available here)

• An article on its Hebrew translation (Arabic PDF)
• Italian translation by Prof.  M. Capanini. LA BILANCIA DELL'AZION e altri scritti, UTET (Torino, 2005) pp. 97-274 with extensive introduction in 96 pp. ISBN: 8802060746.
• German Translation: Das Kriterium des Handelns = Mizan al-`amal / Abu-Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali ; aus dem Arabischen u¨bersetzt, mit einer Einleitung, mit Anmerkungen und Indices ; herausgegeben von `Abd-Elsamad `Abd-Elhamid Elschazli. Darmstadt : WBG, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006.
• French Translation: Crite`re de l'action = Mizan al-a`mal : traite´ d'e´thique psychologique et mystique / de Abou-Hamid Mouhammad b. Mouhammad b. Mouhammad al-Ghazzali ; version franc¸aise et e´tude analytique par Hikmat Hachem ; pre´face de Louis Massignon. Published/Created: Paris : G.P. Maisonneuve, 1945.

Endless Bliss - Fifth Fascicle

Author: M. Siddik Gumus

Langauge: English

This book is a great source of religious and spiritual knowledge for a Muslim that covers almost every aspect of Islam. Many letters from the Maktubat of Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Thani have been translated into this book.

It was originally written in Turkish and later translated into English.

Endless Bliss - Forth Fascicle

Author: M. Siddik Gumus

Langauge: English

This book is a great source of religious and spiritual knowledge for a Muslim that covers almost every aspect of Islam. Many letters from the Maktubat of Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Thani have been translated into this book.

It was originally written in Turkish and later translated into English.

Endless Bliss - Third Fascicle

Author: M. Siddik Gumus

Langauge: English

This book is a great source of religious and spiritual knowledge for a Muslim that covers almost every aspect of Islam. Many letters from the Maktubat of Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Thani have been translated into this book.

It was originally written in Turkish and later translated into English.

Endless Bliss - Second Fascicle

Author: M. Siddik Gumus

Langauge: English

This book is a great source of religious and spiritual knowledge for a Muslim that covers almost every aspect of Islam. Many letters from the Maktubat of Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Thani have been translated into this book.

It was originally written in Turkish and later translated into English.

Endless Bliss - First Fascicle

Author: M. Siddik Gumus

Langauge: English

This book is a great source of religious and spiritual knowledge for a Muslim that covers almost every aspect of Islam. Many letters from the Maktubat of Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Thani have been translated into this book.

It was originally written in Turkish and later translated into English.

English Translation of Kashf al-Mahjoob by Reynold A. Nicholson

Language: English

Author: Sayyad Ali Hujweri

Translator: Reynold A. Nicholson

Published by: Zia-ul-Quran Publications, Lahore

With a preface by Justice (R) Pir Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari