The Alchemy of Happiness
Imam Al-Ghazzali
Al-Ghazali's Sufi classic on the transformation of the self, where the alchemy that matters is the refinement of the soul rather than of metal. Claud Field's translation covers knowledge of self, of God, of this world and of the next.
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