The Invocation of God

In describing al-Wabil al-Sayyib, here translated into English for the first time as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on the Invocation of God, the author says, 'We have mentioned [in it] nearly one hundred benefits of remembrance of God [dhikr], and the secrets of remembrance...This is a book of great usefulness.' Written in the fourteenth century by the renowned theologian Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, this treatise movingly details the many blessings of the remembrance of God. Through discussions of the ego, the nature of the body, the ephemerality of the world, the degrees of prayer, fasting, charity, and the purification of the heart, this beautifully written work is a genuine contribution to Muslim spirituality. What makes Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on the Invocation of God of great interest is that it illustrates the spiritual life of Ibn Qayyim and of his teacher, the Hanbalite reformer Ibn Taymiyya (1263AH/1328AD).

• Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship
• Al-Ghazzali On Knowing Yourself and God
• Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Knowledge: From Key to the Blissful Abode
• Imam Al-Ghazali Mukhtasar Ihya Ulum Ad-din
• The Marvels of the Heart: Science of the Spirit (Ihya Ulum Al-Din/ The Revival of the Religious Sciences)
• The Beginning of Guidance: The Imam and proof of Islam
• Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Divine Wisdom and the Problem of Evil
• Al-Ghazali's Forty Principles of the Religion (Al- Arba'in Fi Usul ad-Din)
• Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence
• The Book of Wisdoms: Kitab Al-Hikam, a Collection of Sufi Aphorisms