First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and His Revival of the Religious Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780199989621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.

Kenneth Garden

Opis

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

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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.