Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the AfterlifeAl Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death & the Afterlife is the first English translation of the last chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences. After expounding his Sufi philosophy of death and showing the importance of the contemplation of human mortality to the mystical way of self purification, Ghazali takes his readers through the stages of the future life: the vision of the Angels of the Grave, the Resurrection, the Intercession of the

like Sisyphus condemned forever to roll a rock up a hill

including the origins of farming

contestation over nationality and the emergence of nation states in the making

the structure of the whole of the Revival and places each of the chapters in the context of the others

he heads an army of misfits

Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousness

tidak kira muda ataupun tua

the Baba Malay dialect

He is the translator

but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences

His account of Ibn Khaldun’s thought is a remarkable

The introduction considers theories from the social sciences and economics which can help liberate writers from dependence on states as narrative frameworks