About
ihyagazzali.com is a study platform for anyone who wants to read Imam al-Ghazali’s Ihya Ulum al-Din chapter by chapter, together with source summaries and lectures.
What is this site?
The Ihya is a large work of four volumes and forty books. For every chapter this site offers a book summary, related lecture summaries, study questions, a glossary of concepts and topic tags, so readers can move easily between chapters and keep their own notes.
The site is published in Turkish, English and Japanese.
Sources
- Imam al-Ghazali, Ihya Ulum al-Din (the main source of the book summaries)
- Muhammed Yazıcı’s video lecture series on the Ihya
- Prof. Dr. Ömer Türker’s Ihya reading seminars
- TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam entries (for the introduction to al-Ghazali and the Ihya)
The lecture videos are published on their owners’ YouTube channels; the site links to them and embeds the player, and does not redistribute them.
How is the content prepared?
Book and lecture summaries are prepared from the source texts and lectures with the help of AI tools such as Google NotebookLM. Every AI-generated summary is reviewed in the admin panel before it is published.
Even so, summaries may contain omissions, misplaced emphasis or translation errors. When you study a topic or make a decision, please consult the original source and the relevant lecture.
Important note
The summaries on this site do not replace the Ihya or the lecture videos. The site does not issue religious rulings (fatwas); for questions of jurisprudence, consult qualified scholars and sources.
The full text of the Ihya and copyrighted sources are not published on this site.
Corrections and contact
If you notice a mistake, an omission or a translation problem, please tell us through the contact page. Corrections are made and published from the admin panel.