Kenneth Garden

The First Islamic Reviver (eBook, PDF)

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the Religious Sciences

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199989638
• Artikelnr.: 40141906

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