These days I am listening to a Teaching Company course about consciousness, by Prof. Daniel N. Robinson, titled, Consciousness and its implications. The Quranic verse about the soul quoted above is written all over this course, as a Freudian slip!
Essence of Islam is a 5 volume collection of excerpts from the writings of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi; Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The excerpts are organized under different subjects. The second volume has a chapter on ‘the soul,’ and can be reviewed online: