The book is a masterful combination of the history of social-intellectual context (part 1), philosophical biography (part 2), and the history of philosophy (part 3), each meant to provide the most updated account of its subject matter... The book will deservedly become a go-to resource for Islamic intellectual history for a long time.
Frank Griffel is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He is a Carnegie Scholar and a recipient of a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of Germany's Humboldt Foundation, among others. He is author of Al-Ghaz=al=i's Philosophical Theology.