The First Islamic Reviver
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the Religious Sciences
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 January 2014
- ISBN 9780199989621
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 236x160x22 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The First Islamic Reviver presents a new biography of al-Ghazali's final decade and a half, presenting him not as a reclusive spiritual seeker, but as an engaged Islamic revivalist seeking to reshape his religious tradition.
MoreLong description:
Building on recent revisionist scholarship, this book offers a new account of the last two decades of the life of the seminal eleventh-century Islamic thinker Ab
Beyond the myth, this is the first convincing reviving of the historical al-Ghazali and a proper understanding of his reformist project in the Ihya. A great work, and a must read for all the naive admirers and other aficionados of the Hujjat al-Islam.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Al-Ghazali Before His Revival
Chapter 1-Al-Ghazli and the Seljuk State
Chapter 2-The Scale of Action: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Ghaz?l? on the Eve of his Departure from Baghdad
Part 2: The Revival of the Religious Sciences
Chapter 3-The Revival and its Agenda
Chapter 4-The Rhetoric of Revival: Authorizing Strategies and the Presentation of the Science of the Hereafter
Part III: Promoting Revival in the World
Chapter 5 Promoting the Revival
Chapter 6: Defending the Revival
Conclusion
