Name & the Named: The Divine Attributes of God

Al-Ghazali, Shaykh Tosun Bayrak

Paperback

9781887752299

This work includes Imam al-Ghazali's Al-Maqsad al-Asna' fi Sharh Ma'ni Asma' Allah al-Husna

In the Islamic Sufi tradition, it is said, “Qualify yourself with the qualities of God.” Compiled from classical Arabic and Turkish texts of Al-Ghazali, Ibn Arabi, Djili, and Abdul Qadir Jilani, among others, these are the divine attributes by which God manifests Himself in the world and by which He completes the spiritual life of man. In this volume, Tosun Bayrak, a shaykh of the Jerrahi order based in Istanbul, explains how to use these Names for the transformation of the soul–“to see that the human being is the microcosm of the macrocosm where God’s attributes are reflected.”