ISBN : 9780199989621
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
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