Kenneth Garden (Tufts University Assistant Professor of Religion)

First Islamic Reviver

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and His Revival of the Religious Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780199989621
• ISBN-10: 0199989621
• Artikelnr.: 38595677

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Garden is Assistant Professor of Religion at Tufts University. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Islamic Studies and Muslim World.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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