Al-Ghazali's book 'Alchemy of Happiness,' held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Al-Ghazali - Bibliothèque nationale de France via Wikimedia Commons From childhood, we are told that patience is ...

One of the paradoxes of religious and intellectual life is the tension between continuity and change. On the one hand, communities - particularly religious ones - hunger for certainty. The ordinary ...

Reem Bassiouney, The Diver: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, Cairo: Dar Nahdet Masr, pp. 496 Providing the framework, the prototype and the subtitle to this book, “The Lion and the Diver” is an anonymously ...

(The Conversation) — From childhood, we are told that patience is a virtue and that good things will come to those who wait. And, so, many of us work on cultivating patience. This often starts by ...