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was written it has been one of the most frequently read books
of the Islamic world.
2. The al-Iqtisad fi al-Itiqad (The Median in Belief) deals with
matters of faith and conviction.
3. The Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the
Philosophers) is a collection of criticisms of Aristotelian phi-
losophy.
4. The Kimiya’ al-Sa‘adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) deals
with faith, deeds, morality, and tasawwuf. It is the Persian
resume of Ihya’.
5. The Bidayat al-Hidayah (The Beginning of Guidance) was
written in a style accessible to the ordinary public, and is a
book of instruction on the subjects of religion and ethics.
Large and small, the total number of works penned by Imam
al-Ghazali is 75.

Sayyid Ibrahim Haqqi of Erzurum
Hadrat Ibrahim Haqqi of Erzurum was born in the township
of Hasankale, Erzurum, in 1703. Since his grandfather was
descended from the line of the Prophet (saas), he qualifies as a
sayyid on the maternal side of his lineage.
Hadrat Ibrahim Haqqi made the acquaintance of Ismail
Faqirullah during a trip to the Tillo region in Siirt with his
father, and settled there for a time. On the death of his father,
the dervish Osman Effendi, Haqqi returned to Erzurum and
continued his education from where he had left it in his earlier
life. He received lessons in Arabic and Persian from
Muhammad Hazik, the mufti of Erzurum. Having made great
progress in Turkish, Arabic and Persian he was able to write
beautiful poetry in all three languages.

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