Al-Ghazali's Moderation in Belief

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Note on the Translation; Acknowledgments; Translator's Introduction; Religious Preface; Preface; First Introduction: On showing that to wade into this science is important for the religion; Second Introduction: On showing that to wade into this science, although it is important, is unimportant for some people but what is important for them is to avoid it; Third Introduction: On showing that the occupation with this science is a collective obligation; Fourth Introduction: On explaining the methods of proof that we employ in this book. First Treatise: Theoretical Reflection on the Essence of GodFirst Proposition: The existence of God; Second Proposition: God is eternal anteriorly; Third Proposition: God is eternal posteriorly; Fourth Proposition: God is not an extended substance; Fifth Proposition: God is not a body; Sixth Proposition: God is not a mode; Seventh Proposition: God is not located in a direction; Eighth Proposition: No anthropomorphic description is true of God; Ninth Proposition: God is seeable; Tenth Proposition: God is one; Second Treatise: On the Divine Attributes; First Part; First Attribute: Power. Second Attribute: KnowledgeThird Attribute: Life; Fourth Attribute: Will; Fifth and Sixth Attributes: Hearing and Sight; Seventh Attribute: Speech; Second Part: On the general characteristics of the divine attributes, concerning that which they share and that in which they differ; First Characteristic: The attributes are additional to the essence; Second Characteristic: The attributes subsist in the essence; Third Characteristic: The attributes are eternal; Fourth Characteristic: The names that are derived from these divine attributes are true of God eternally. Third Treatise: On the Acts of GodFirst Proposition; Second Proposition; Third Proposition; Fourth Proposition; Fifth Proposition; Sixth Proposition; Seventh Proposition; Fourth Treatise; First Chapter: On establishing the prophethood of our prophet, Muḥammad; The First Way of Proving the Prophethood of Muḥammad by Means of Miracles: the Miracle of the Qur'ān; The Second Way of Proving the Prophethood of Muḥammad by Means of Miracles: Other Miracles; Second Chapter: On showing that it is obligatory to believe in matters reported in the revelation and deemed possible by reason; Introduction. First SectionSecond Section; Third Chapter: On the Imamate; First Issue; Second Issue; Third Issue; Fourth Chapter: On explaining which among the sects must be charged with infidelity; Interpretive Essay; Bibliography; Index of Qur ānic Verses; Index of Ḥadīths; Subject Index