{"product_id":"the-just-balance-al-imam-ghazali-9789366082912","title":"The Just Balance - Al Qistas Al Mustaqim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Just Balance\u003c\/strong\u003e is Al-Ghazali's concise yet profound examination of religious reasoning, theological proof, and the disciplined use of argument in Islamic thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown in Arabic as \u003cstrong\u003eAl-Qistas Al-Mustaqim\u003c\/strong\u003e, the work presents a sustained engagement with the claims of the Ta'limiyyah and the wider Isma'ili intellectual challenge of Al-Ghazali's age. Rather than responding only through polemic, Al-Ghazali develops a method of weighing knowledge through rules of demonstration derived from the Qur'an itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text explores the \"rules of measurement\" by which truth and error may be distinguished. These include the Great, Middle, and Small Rules of Equivalence, the Rule of Concomitance, and the Rule of Opposition. Through these forms, Al-Ghazali examines the relation between revelation, reason, analogy, opinion, and authoritative teaching. He argues that the Muslim community has no need of a hidden or infallible Imam beyond the guidance brought by Muhammad, peace be upon him, and the knowledge transmitted through the Qur'an and the learned scholars of his community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work also addresses the misuse of argument, the \"rules of the Devil,\" the limits of personal opinion and analogy, the dangers of sterile controversy, and the proper method for guiding different classes of people: the common folk, the people of insight, and the dialecticians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis translation, with introduction and notes by D. P. Brewster, situates the work within Al-Ghazali's intellectual world and the theological debates between Sunni orthodoxy and Isma'ili thought. It is especially useful for students and scholars of Islamic theology, logic, kalam, usul al-fiqh, intellectual history, and classical Muslim polemical literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Just Balance\u003c\/strong\u003e remains an important text for understanding how Al-Ghazali joined Qur'anic reasoning, formal logic, and Sunni theological discipline in the service of religious knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Introduction Concerning the Rules of Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: The Great Rule of Equivalence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: The Middle Rule of Measurement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: The Small Rule of Measurement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: The Rule of Concomitance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: The Rule of Opposition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: On the Rules of the Devil and How These Are Used by the Taʿlīmiyyah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: How Muhammad and the Learned Men of His Community Have No Need of Another Imam, and the Way in Which the Knowledge of the Veracity of Muhammad is Shown, That of Those Who Know, A Way Which is Clearer Than the Consideration of Miracles and More Sure Than It\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: How to Deliver Men from the Darkness of Controversies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Of the Forms of Opinion and Analogy and Their Falsity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix I: Nomenclature of the Ismāʿīlī Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix II: Al-Ḥasan Ibn Muḥammad Al-Ṣabbāḥ's Teaching\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix III: Al-Ghazālī and the Syllogism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix IV: English Translations of the Works of Al-Ghazālī\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Imam Ghazali\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9366082912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789366082912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Qadeem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Imam Ghazali","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48871438582015,"sku":"9789366082912","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-just-balance-al-imam-ghazali-9789366082912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}