LMM Book Club - February

Salaam All,

Excellent january meetup but I think we have read plenty of heavy and lengthy stuff. Lets go for something very different from previous ones. I looked at the suggestions made by the group and putting out a list from which you can vote. All these books are on the list but we can only read one for February, so if the book you suggested doesnt get selected for this month then dont worry as it may appear in later months.

Update:

The selected book for Feb is...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eDu4Wdo2L.BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU02.jpg1. Alchemy of Happiness (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alchemy-Happiness-Forgotten-Books/dp/1605066885/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b)

One of the great works of mystical religious literature, the Kimiya-i-Sa'adaat strove to bring man closer to understanding God by helping him understand himself. These excerpts from that work, by a strikingly original thinker on Islam who lived and wrote in the 11th century, were first published in 1910, and serve as a potent reminder of how powerful an influence Al-Ghazzali had upon religious philosophers of the Middle Ages, both Christian and Islamic. With its wise and warmly humanistic outlook, this little book may well foster a new measure of understanding in the current philosophical battle between the religious traditions of East and West.