Muhtar Holland (1935- 2010) was an English-born translator and author who embraced Islam in 1969 and dedicated his life to translating classical Islamic texts for an English-speaking audience. Educated at Oxford University, where he studied Arabic and Turkish, Holland held academic positions in Toronto, London, and Malaysia before focusing on writing and translation. His work includes influential translations of Imam al-Ghazali's Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship and Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani's Revelations of the Unseen. He passed away in 2010 while still translating this book. James Pavlin is currently Adjunct Professor in the History Department at William Paterson University in New Jersey and a part-time Lecturer in the Department of Religion at Rutgers University. Dr. Pavlin received his Doctorate in Philosophy in 1998 from New York University, Department of Middle Eastern Studies. He has conducted hundreds of workshops, seminars, presentations, and public speeches. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) was a leading scholar, jurist, and theologian of the golden age of Islam, and he remains its truest advocate in modern times. As a teacher of both inward and outward faith, he recorded these practical teachings in his forty-book compendium of Islamic knowledge.