Sufi vision

Author name: Bahman Shikouhi

A historical novel that details the intellectual journey of Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali in an exciting way, starting from his early childhood in a village in the city of Tus in the far northeastern part of Iran, and his travels to receive knowledge and sciences in Gorgan and Nishapur, and the rest of the capitals of the Islamic world in the east, through his youth and the rise of his status, and the debates and discussions that took place between him and his teacher, the poet Omar Khayyam, about the meaning of life, and his relationship with the important figure Nizam al-Mulk and his son, and his embassy between Malik Shah and the Caliph of Baghdad, al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allah, as well as the political and military events, and the social issues that he witnessed in the corridors of the palaces and courts of kings and caliphs, and the intellectual transformations that accompanied him in Baghdad, Damascus, Mecca, Medina, and Alexandria, and the conclusion of his life with his book The famous "Ihya' Ulum al-Din", and then his return to his hometown where his first biography was
It is the first historical novel that accurately depicts the details of the biography of Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. It is a historical, literary, and fictional biography that the contemporary Iranian writer Bahman Shokouhi has mastered in employing through smooth language.