Al-Ghazālī's Path to Sufism and His Deliverance from Error

"The book contains a translation of Al-Ghazālī's autobiography, The Deliverance from Error, one of the most remarkable personal documents to have come down to us from Islamic civilization. The Imam describes his education and his intellectual crisis which left him so paralyzed by doubt that he was foced to resign the most distinguished academic apooointment of his day. His faith returned after years of wandering and seeking during which he achieved direct knowledge of God in the form of the illluminative experience of the Sufis" --back cover.