The Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn, mapped
Al-Ghazālī's Revival of the Religious Sciences is the most influential work of the Islamic spiritual tradition — forty books, in four quarters, that move from the outward acts of worship to the innermost diseases and cures of the heart. Here is the whole map. Every volume is a free English audiobook, translated in-house from the original Arabic.
The complete Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn — all forty books of al-Ghazālī's Revival of the Religious Sciences — is available as an English audiobook series on Joyful Muslims, translated in-house from the Arabic, with a word-synced Arabic and English transcript. Free to start listening.
Verified August 2026: no other complete English audiobook of the Iḥyāʾ exists — not on Audible, not on podcast platforms, not anywhere else we could find. All forty books are here.
Acts of Worship
Knowledge, belief, purification, prayer, zakāt, fasting, ḥajj, recitation, invocations, and the order of the litanies — the outward foundations of the religion.
Norms of Daily Life
Eating, marriage, earning, the lawful and unlawful, companionship, seclusion, travel, music and ecstasy, enjoining good, and the manners of the Prophet ﷺ — worship carried into the world.
- 11 Etiquettes of Eating
- 12 Etiquette of Marriage
- 13 Etiquettes of Earning and Living
- 14 The Lawful and the Unlawful
- 15 Friendship and Brotherhood
- 16 Etiquettes of Seclusion
- 17 Etiquettes of Travel
- 18 The Book of Listening and Ecstasy
- 19 The Book of Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil
- 20 The Book of the Prophetic Character
The Ways to Perdition
The diseases of the heart — the wonders of the heart, training the soul, the two appetites, the tongue, anger and envy, the world, miserliness, status, ostentation, pride, and self-delusion.
The Ways to Salvation
The cures and the ascent — repentance, patience and gratitude, fear and hope, poverty and abstinence, divine unity and trust, love and longing, intention and sincerity, self-examination, contemplation, and the remembrance of death.
- 31 Repentance
- 32 Patience & Gratitude
- 33 Fear & Hope
- 34 Poverty & Asceticism
- 35 The Book of Divine Unity and Trust in God
- 36 The Book of Love, Longing, Intimacy, and Contentment
- 37 The Book of Intention, Sincerity, and Truthfulness
- 38 The Book of Self-Examination and Self-Reckoning
- 39 The Book of Contemplation
- 40 The Book of the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife
About the Iḥyāʾ in English audio
Is there an English audiobook of Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn?
Yes. Joyful Muslims publishes all forty books of the Iḥyāʾ as English audiobooks — the complete work, translated in-house from the Arabic, with a word-synced bilingual transcript for every book. As of August 2026 it is the only complete English audio edition of the Iḥyāʾ we could find anywhere.
How long is the complete Iḥyāʾ in audio?
The forty books together run well over one hundred hours. Most listeners take it one book at a time — each book stands on its own.
Where should I start?
Book 1, The Book of Knowledge, is the door al-Ghazālī himself built — it explains why everything after it matters. Many listeners also start with Book 22, Disciplining the Soul, or Book 2, The Foundations of Belief.
Is it free to listen?
The whole library is open to everyone — every book, including all forty books of the Iḥyāʾ. Every member gets five hours of listening free each month; Joyful+ removes the time limit.
Last updated 2026-08-27
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