The First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and His Revival of the Religious SciencesBuilding 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 |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
AlGhazali Before His Revival | 15 |
The Revival of the Religious Sciences | 61 |
Promoting the Revival in the World | 123 |
EpilogueRereading the Deliverer | 169 |
Notes | 177 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abū agenda al-Ghazālī attaining authority Baghdad begins body caliph called chapter charges claim controversy critics death Deliverer describes devoted discipline discussion divine doctrines ethical existence fact Fakhr al-Mulk felicity four further gives God’s heart Hereafter human Ibid important insight Islamic Jules Janssens knowledge later letter Madrasa means mentioned method mujaddid Muslim Nishapur Niẓām al-Mulk Niẓāmiyya passage path Persian philosophical politics position possible practice presents promoting Prophet pursue pursuit quarter rational reader reading refers religion religious sciences revealed Revival ritual role Sanjar Scale Scale of Action scholars schools Science of Praxis seek seen Seljuk sense served shows soul sources spiritual Sufi Sufism suggests sultan teaching term theology theoretical Theoreticians third thought tion tradition translation Treiger truth understanding Unveiling virtue writes written wrote