Al-Ghazzali On Listening to Music (Great Books of the Islamic World)

Al-Ghazzali discusses the difficult issues involved in listening to music and attaining ecstasy through topics like what is unlawful and what is lawful, where listening to music is unlawful, the effects of music and its rules of conduct and the rules of conduct of the whirling dance (sama). This is Book XVIII of Part Two of the Alchemy of Happiness entitled On Mutual Relations.