Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali

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1. Idries Shah

   Author of The Way of the Sufi, Tales of the Dervishes, Wisdom of the Idiots

2. Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali

   Author of Deliverance from Error: Five Key Texts Including His Spiritual Autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal, The Alchemy of Happiness, Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires: Books XXII and XXIII of the Revival of the Religiou

3. Seyyed Hossein Nasr

   Author of Science and civilization in Islam, Knowledge and the Sacred, Three Muslim Sages: Avicenna-Suhrawardi-Ibn Arabi

4. Martin Lings

   Author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, What is Sufism? (Islamic Texts Society), A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad al-Alawi (Golden Palm Series)

5. Mohammad Hashim Kamali

   Author of Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, A Textbook of Hadith Studies, Freedom, Equality and Justice in Islam (Fundamental Rights and Liberties in Islam series)

6. Majid Fakhry

   Author of A History of Islamic Philosophy, Averroes: His Life, Works, and Influence (Great Islamic Writings), Al-Farabi, Founder of Islamic Neoplatonism: His Life, Works, and Influence (Great Islamic Thinkers)

7. Muhammad Asad

   Author of The Koran, The Qur'an, The Road to Mecca, The Principles of State and Government in Islam

8. Yahya ibn Sharaf al- Nawawi

   Author of Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith, Al-Maqasid: Nawawi's Manual of Islam, Etiquette with the Quran

9. Annemarie Schimmel

   Author of Mystical Dimensions of Islam, And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety (Studies in Religion), My Soul Is a Woman: The Feminine in Islam

10. Fazlur Rahman

    Author of Islam, Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies), Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism

11. Sa'di

    Author of The Rose Garden (Gulistan) of Saadi, The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard), Books I and II

12. Charles Le Gai Eaton

    Author of Islam and the Destiny of Man (Suny Series, Islam), Remembering God : Reflections on Islam

13. Ibn Rushd

    Author of Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory (Islamic Translation Series), Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De anima (Islamic Translation Series)

14. Hamza Yusuf

    Author of The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi, Caesarean Moon Births: Calculations, Moon Sighting, and the Prophetic Way

15. William C. Chittick

    Author of The Sufi Path of Knowledge, Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality), The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn Al-'Arabi's Cosmology (Suny Series in Islam)

16. Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti

    Author of The History of the Khalifahs Who Took the Right Way, The Remembrance of God

17. Sachiko Murata

    Author of The Vision of Islam (Visions of Reality. Understanding Religions), The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought

18. Mahmud Shabistari

    Author of The Secret Garden, The Secret Rose Garden

19. Sherman A. Jackson

    Author of Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking toward the Third Resurrection, On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abu Hamid al Ghazali's Faysal al Tafriqa (Studies in Islamic Philos

20. Ibn Arabi

    Author of Ibn-Al-Arabi: The Bezels of Wisdom (Classics of Western Spirituality Series), Journey to the Lord of Power: A Sufi Manual on Retreat