The Bane of the Tongue Volume 24: Book 24 of Ihya'' ''ulum al-din, The Revival of the Religious Sciences

About Abu Hamid Muhammad al-GhazaliMichael Abdurrahman FitzgeraldMohamed Fouad Aresmouk

Fouad Aresmouk grew up in a traditional Marrakesh family the son of an Arabic teacher in the public school system and grandson of one of the most renowned Quran teachers in Marrakesh and muqaddam for the Tijani Sufi order. Fouad completed his degree in Islamic Studies and Arabic at Qadi Ayyad University Marrakesh also pursuing a personal study of Sufism in Morocco that continues today. He is the author of al-Rashad fi zabdati alawrad a commentary (shar?) on the litany of the ?abibiyya Sufi order of Morocco and co-translator of several works including in the Fons Vitae Ghazali series.Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) was a leading scholar jurist and theologian of the golden age of Islam and he remains its truest advocate in modern times. As a teacher of both inward and outward faith he recorded these practical teachings in his forty-book compendium of Islamic knowledge.Originally from California Abdurrahman Fitzgerald and his wife migrated to Morocco in the late 1970s. He has since been involved in education and the study of Arabic Islam and Sufism. He is co-translator of Ibn al-Qayyim on the Invocation of God (Islamic Texts Society 2000) and with Fouad Aresmouk has translated two portions of Ibn Ajibas Quranic commentary al-Bahr al-Madid Ibn Ajibas spiritual glossary The Book of Ascension five books in Fons Vitae s al-Ghazalis series Letters on the Spiritual Path by Mulay al Arabi al-Darqawi and the Diwan of Sidi Muhammad ibn al-Habib.