Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Preface IX
4. Contents XIII
5. Notes on Translation, Transliteration and Dates XV
6. Chronology XVII
7. Chapter One Ghazzālī’s Life and Times 1
8. Chapter Two ‘The Bitter Certainty’ 70
9. Chapter Three Ghazzālī and Antinomianism 95
10. Chapter Four Ghazzālī’s Religious Rulings 113
11. Chapter Five An Appraisal of Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s Treatise on Freethinkers 123
12. Chapter Six The Idiocy of the Antinomians 159
13. Appendix: Persian Texts 187
14. Bibliography 203
15. Index 215