to turn the attention of Muslims away from these to the emphasising of the essential spirit of Islam. This should be central and normative in the rising movements of reform and rejuvenescence. In this connection, as bringing out this spirit, it is especially appropriate, both for the students of the religions and for those directly interested in the spiritual revival in Islam, to publish in an easily accessible form some of the religious and moral teachings of Ghazzali. A Western scholar has written of him that he is "the greatest, certainly the most sympathetic figure in the history of Islam…the only teacher of the after generations ever put by Muslims on a level with the four great Imams."[1] And he goes on to remark further: "In the renaissance of Islam which is now rising to view, his time will come and the new life will proceed from a renewed study of his works."[2] But Dieterici says of him: "As a despairing
