Looks at differences between Al-Ghazâlî (d.505/1111) and al-Dabbâgh (d.696/1296) with regard to definitions of love, its causes and its signs, the ways to love God, God's love for man, and stations and states of love.

Binyamin Abrahamov received his Ph.d summa cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 1982. Since 1995 he has been Associate Professor of Islamic theology and Qur'anic studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 AL-GHAZÂLÎ'S THEORY OF DIVINE LOVE IN KITÂB AL-MA?ABBA; Chapter 3 AL-DABBÂ;GH' S THEORY OF DIVINE LOVE; Notes REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS INDEX;