8vo. XXXVII, [1], 250 pp., cloth in d/w, appendix, biblio, index, the Great Books of Islamic Civilization Series, Like New, The Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, Garnet Publishing, Reading, 2000.

Synopsis

The work commonly known as al-Irshad ( The Guide), is a major Islamic classic theology. The author ( d. 1085), was the leading Ash’arite (Sunni) theologian of his time, but he was more famous for many important treatises on the principle of law and for having been the teacher of Al-Ghazalli.