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Informationen zum Autor Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d.1111) is the most famous theologian-mystic in Islam. His magnum opus! the Revival of the Religious Sciences! is the most read book in the Muslim world after the Quran. Klappentext Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence is the thirty-fourth chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences. It continues the ethical discussions oulined in this section of the Revival and focuses not only on outward poverty and abstinence but more importantly on their inner, spiritual meaning. Inhaltsverzeichnis CHAPTER ONE: An Exposition of the Reality of Poverty! the Different States of one who is Poor and his Names CHAPTER TWO: An Exposition of the Excellence of Absolute Poverty CHAPTER THREE: An Exposition of the Distinctive Excellence of the Poor! the Content and the Sincere CHAPTER FOUR: An Exposition of Poverty's Excellence over Wealth CHAPTER FIVE: An Exposition of the Proprieties of the Poor Person in his Poverty CHAPTER SIX: An Exposition of the Proprieties of the Poor Person upon Receiving an Unsolicited Offering CHAPTER SEVEN: An Exposition of the Forbiddance of Unnecessary Solicitation and the Proprieties of the Poor Person who Must Solicit CHAPTER EIGHT: An Exposition of the Amount of Wealth that Renders Solicitation Illicit CHAPTER NINE: An Exposition of the States of those who Solicit CHAPTER TEN: An Exposition of the Reality of Abstinence CHAPTER ELEVEN: An Exposition of the Excellence of Abstinence CHAPTER TWELVE: An Exposition of the Degrees of Abstinence! its Categories in Relation to itself and to what is Desirable and what is Undesirable CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Elucidation of Abstinence with Respect to the Necessities of Life CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Signs of Abstinence APPENDIX: Persons Cited in Text BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF QUR'ANIC QUOTATIONS GENERAL INDEX
