ISBN: 9798259101548 - he called him an ocean: the life, exile, and undying legacy of al-juwayni, imam al-haramayn (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What do you do with the ache of watching someone you taught become greater than you You gave them everything you knew. You opened the door and you were glad when they ran through it. And then one day they passed you, and in the middle of your pride you felt something you have never told anyone.More than nine hundred years ago, one of the great minds of the Islamic world felt it too. This is the true story of Abd al-Malik al-Juwayni, the scholar the Muslim world called the Imam of the Two Sanctuaries, and of the student he called an ocean: al-Ghazali. Told as narrative history and drawn from the medieval biographies and chronicles, it follows a copyist's son from a childhood of fierce scruple in Nishapur, through a curse read from the pulpits of his own city, a flight by night into the camp of the very minister who had ordered his arrest, four years teaching beside the Kaaba, and a homecoming to the college a vizier built for him.And it does not look away from the sentence one of his own students wrote down: that the great master, in private, could not look at his brilliant pupil with a clear heart. Nor from what he did with that feeling.Where the old sources agree, this book follows them. Where they disagree, it tells you. Where they fall silent, the imagined scenes are clearly marked as imagined.In these pages you will: - Recognize the envy you were ashamed of as something a great soul also carried, and mastered- Feel the worth of what you gave, even to someone who outgrew you- Walk the roads of Nishapur, Baghdad and Mecca in the age of the Seljuk sultans- Watch a teacher's words travel on in books he never wrote, down to the students of today- Weigh the most famous deathbed story told about him, with the witnesses on both sidesThis is a book for teachers, parents, mentors, and anyone who has ever helped someone rise past them and wondered what the giving was worth.He called him an ocean. He meant it. He also, some nights, felt himself drowning in it.Open the first page, and meet the teacher who kept giving anyway.…