[1] George Hourani indicated that the Iqtisad and Mizan al-amal were completed before or during Ghazali's crisis of faith.

It led him his post at the Niẓamiyya school in Baghdad and enter the path of Tasawwuf.

In this book, Ghazali makes an attempt to respond to the extreme literalists and the Muʿtazilites.

Ghazali's main topic throughout is in praise of God, depicting it as a work of theology.

[3] The first complete English-language edition was translated by Aladdin M. Yaqub, and published by the University of Chicago Press in 2013.