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Al-Ghazali The Mysteries of Purification: Book 3 of the Revival of the Religious Sciences medieval islamic political thought In The Violence of OrganizedIn The Mysteries of Purification (Kitab asrar al tahara), the third of the forty books of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'ulum al din), Abu Hamid al Ghazali explains the fundamentals of the purification that is necessary in order to perform the five daily prayers. Over the following chapters, al Ghazali examines the lesser ablution (wudu), the greater ablution (ghusl), and the dry ablution (ablution without water, or tayammum). He