Deliverance from Error & Mystical Union with the Almighty: Al-Munqidh Min Al-Dalal by Imam Ghazali, Translated by Muhammad Abulaylah

Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's 'Deliverance from Error and Attachment to the Lord of Might and Majesty' successfully allows the reader a concise, and informative window into the life of a great scholar. Deliverance from Error, translated from the Arabic 'al Munqidh min ad-Dalal' by W. Montgomery Watt, is an autobiographical account of Ghazali's struggle during a period of spiritual unrest in his life that begins with him as a teacher at a prestigious academic institution at the age of thirty-three, continues through his ascetic wanderings, and concludes upon his return to his teaching career but now as a complete God-orientated man, rather than a person "on the plain of native and second-hand belief (sic)". The book opens with Ghazali replying to a colleague, who had questioned him regarding "the aims and inmost nature of sciences and the perplexing depths of the religious systems" and the reasons for Ghazali's actions at this stage of his life. He is an enquiring man who subjects all