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The Alchemy of Happiness — Al-Ghazali

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The Alchemy of Happiness

کیمیای سعادت (Kimiya-yi sa'adat)

Al-Ghazali según Khalil Gibran
byAl-Ghazali

A shorter, reorganised Persian version of the *Ihya*. Four opening "headings" (knowledge of self, of God, of the world and of the hereafter) precede four "pillars" corresponding to the quarters of the *Ihya*. Its starting point is that knowledge of self is the key to knowledge of God, and its central image is the heart as a mirror that "alchemical" discipline polishes until it reflects the divine. It is one of the great works of eleventh-century Persian prose.

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Authorship note

Authentic; a Persian synthesis of the Ihya for his disciples, completed shortly before 499/1106 (Bouyges and Allard, cited by the Iranica). Claud Field's English translation (1910) was made from an Urdu version and summarises only the introduction.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Alchemy of Happiness — Al-Ghazali

    The Alchemy of Happiness

    M. E. Sharpe, 1991

    Translation: Claud Field, revisado y anotado por Elton L. Daniel

    ISBN 1563240041

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  • The Alchemy of Happiness — Al-Ghazali

    The Alchemy of Happiness

    Octagon Press, 1980

    Translation: Claud Field

    ISBN 0900860715

  • The Alchemy of Happiness

    John Murray, Londres (Wisdom of the East), 1910

    Translation: Claud Field

    Dominio público; traducido de una versión urdu.

  • The Alchemy of Happiness

    Munsell, Albany, 1873

    Translation: Henry A. Homes

    Traducida de la versión turca. Dominio público.

Deutsch

  • Das Elixier der Glückseligkeit

    Eugen Diederichs, Jena, 1923

    Translation: Hellmut Ritter

    Selección. Sin ISBN.

Persa · فارسی

  • Kimiya-yi sa'adat (2 vols.)

    Teherán, 1982

    Translation: Husayn Khadiv-Jam (ed.)

    Edición de referencia; reeditada varias veces. Sin ISBN localizado.

Español

  • Alquimia de la felicidad

    Publicación independiente, 2022

    ISBN 9798351261256

    Traductor y texto de base no indicados en el catálogo.

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Sources

  • Böwering, Gerhard. «Ḡazālī, Abū Ḥāmed Moḥammad i. Biography». Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. X, fasc. 4 (2001), ed. en línea.

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