The Iḥyāʾ in Six Months
دليل القراءة المنهجية
al-Ghazali's forty books in a structured, paced reading.
Six months. Forty books. One hundred sixty-something hours of the greatest single work in Sunni Islamic spirituality, paced as Imam al-Ghazali himself intended: the outer acts first, then the social life, then the destructive vices, then the saving virtues. Each week points at one or two volumes and asks you to sit with them slowly.
- 01
Week 1 — Knowledge
Where the Iḥyāʾ begins, and why.
The Book of Knowledge · Imam al-Ghazali · 6h 14m
- 02
Week 2 — Belief
ʿAqīdah in al-Ghazali's voice.
The Book of Belief · Imam al-Ghazali · 2h 47m
- 03
Week 3 — Purification
Ṭahārah, outer and inner.
The Book of Purification · Imam al-Ghazali · 1h 21m
- 04
Week 4 — Prayer
The mysteries of ṣalāh.
The Book of Prayer · Imam al-Ghazali · 5h 10m
- 05
Week 5 — Zakāt
Purifying wealth.
The Mysteries of Zakat · Imam al-Ghazali · 1h 44m
- 06
Week 6 — Fasting
Three levels of ṣawm.
The Book of Fasting · Imam al-Ghazali · 38m
- 07
Week 7 — Pilgrimage
Ḥajj as rehearsal.
The Mysteries of Pilgrimage · Imam al-Ghazali · 2h 50m
- 08
Week 8 — Qurʾan
Sitting with the Book.
Qur'an Recitation · Imam al-Ghazali · 1h 48m
- 09
Week 9 — Supplication
Duʿāʾ and the heart.
Invocations & Supplications · Imam al-Ghazali · 3h 17m
- 10
Week 10 — Daily Order
Ordering a life.
Arrangement of Litanies · Imam al-Ghazali · 2h 40m
- 11
Week 11 — Table & Home
Adab begins at home.
Etiquettes of Eating · Imam al-Ghazali · 1h 13m
- 12
Week 12 — Marriage
Nikāḥ as worship.
Etiquette of Marriage · Imam al-Ghazali · 3h 10m
- 13
Week 13 — Earning
The halal hand.
Etiquettes of Earning and Living · Imam al-Ghazali · 1h 58m
- 14
Week 14 — Lawful & Unlawful
Drawing the line.
The Lawful and the Unlawful · Imam al-Ghazali · 4h 46m
- 15
Week 15 — Companionship
Friends that save you.
Friendship and Brotherhood · Imam al-Ghazali · 5h 8m
- 16
Week 16 — Seclusion & Travel
Withdrawal and motion — when each is a worship.
Etiquettes of Seclusion · Imam al-Ghazali · 1h 41m
- 17
Week 17 — Listening
Audition and the heart.
The Book of Listening and Ecstasy · Imam al-Ghazali · 2h 41m
- 18
Week 18 — Enjoining Good
Speaking into a crooked world.
The Book of Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil · Imam al-Ghazali · 3h 46m
- 19
Week 19 — The Prophet's Character
The model ﷺ.
The Book of the Prophetic Character · Imam al-Ghazali · 1h 58m
- 20
Week 20 — The Heart
The wondrous organ.
The Book of the Wonders of the Heart · Imam al-Ghazali · 3h 12m
- 21
Week 21 — Disciplining the Soul
Taming the nafs.
The Book of Disciplining the Soul · Imam al-Ghazali · 2h 16m
- 22
Week 22 — The Two Desires
Appetites and their breaking.
The Book of Breaking the Two Desires · Imam al-Ghazali · 1h 58m
- 23
Week 23 — The Tongue
The worst sins are the loudest.
Evils of the Tongue · Imam al-Ghazali · 4h 9m
- 24
Week 24 — Remembrance of Death
The end that sharpens everything.
The Book of the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife · Imam al-Ghazali · 7h 38m
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