In this short spiritual autobiography, known in Arabic as Deliverance from Error, the eleventh-century theologian of Baghdad recounts how he tested every path to certainty. He examines the sophists, scholastic theology, the philosophers and the claims of hidden teachers, before finding in Sufi practice and inspiration the knowledge reason alone could not give.
A key text of Islamic thought, often compared to Augustine’s Confessions, from the Wisdom of the East series. Download the free EPUB.