Al-Ghazali The Mysteries of Purification: Book 3 of the Revival of the Religious SciencesIn The Mysteries of Purification (Kitab asrar al tahara), the third of the forty books of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'ulum al din), Abu Hamid al Ghazali explains the fundamentals of the purification that is necessary in order to perform the five daily prayers. Over the following chapters, al Ghazali examines the lesser ablution (wudu), the greater ablution (ghusl), and the dry ablution (ablution without water, or tayammum). He

Abu Shuja al-Asfahani's legal primer Matn al-Ghayat wa-l-Taqrib (The Ultimate Conspectus) has been a standard text for introducing students of the Shafii school of Islamic law to the full range of basic legal issues

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