Spine title: Al Ghazåli the rememberance of death & the afterlife..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-336) and indexes.

Part One: On the remembrance of death, and an encouragement to remember it abundantly ; On lengthy hopes, and merit of briefs hopes, together with the reason for their prolongation, and how this may be cured ; On agonies and violence of death, and the states preferable upon its advent ; On death of the emissary of God (may God bless him and grant him peace), and the rightly-guided Caliphs after him ; On the sayings of the Caliphs, princes and righteous men when nearing death ; On the sayings of the Gnostics at funerals and cemeteries, and the legal verdict concerning the visitation of graves ; On the true nature of death, and what the dead man undergoes in the grave prior to the blast on the trump ; On the states of the dead which have been known through unveiling [mukåshafa] in dreams -- Part Two: The trumpet-blast ; The land and people of the concourse ; The perspiration ; The length of the day of arising ; The day of arising, and its calamities and names ; The inquisition ; The scales ; The adversaries, and the restoration of wrongs ; The traverse ; The intercession ; The pool ; The inferno, and its terrors and torments ; Heaven, and the varieties of its bliss ; The number of the gardens ; The wall of heaven, its land, trees and rivers ; The raiment of heaven's people and their furnishings, beds, divans and tents ; The food of heaven's people ; The large-eyed houris and the pages ; An exposition of a diverse group of the attributes of heaven's people for which accounts are forthcoming ; The beatific vision, and the beholding of the countenance of God (blessed and exalted is he!) ; A chapter on the wide compass of God's mercy -- Appendix: Persons cited in the text -- Index to Qur'anic quotations.