Known in Arabic as al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (Deliverance from Error), this is Al-Ghazali's own account of abandoning a prestigious teaching career to resolve a crisis of doubt, and the mystical path that resolved it. Claud Field's 1909 translation is the standard public-domain English edition.
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This Hidden Lantern edition of The Confessions of Al-Ghazali is set from Claud Field’s translation, re-typeset for readability with corrected text, modernised layout, and endnotes linked in the digital editions. It runs to 70 pages in print.
Claud Field (1863–1941) was a missionary and scholar who produced accessible English versions of several Persian and Arabic classics in the early twentieth century.
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