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Author: Kenneth Garden (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Tufts University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780199989621
ISBN 10: 0199989621
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 23 January 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
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 --Yahya Michot, Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary This is a much needed and long absent study on al-Ghazali's most influential work. Garden masterfully examines its complex origins, what it set out to accomplish, and the controversies it triggered during the author's lifetime. No reader of al-Ghazali should be without this. --Frank Griffel, Professor of Islamic Studies, Yale University Garden's historically grounded reading of al-Ghazali reveals how Islam's scholars acted as guides for society and not mere seekers of wisdom for themselves. Tracing the connection between his thought and life work as self-proclaimed reviver of Islam, this study makes it now virtually impossible to look at al-Ghazali's writings apart from his efforts in society to bring about nothing less than the salvation and eternal happiness of his fellow believers. --Paul L. Heck, author of Skepticism in Classical Islam: Moments of Confusion
"""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 naïve admirers and other aficionados of the Hujjat al-Islam"" --Yahya Michot, Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary ""This is a much needed and long absent study on al-Ghazali's most influential work. Garden masterfully examines its complex origins, what it set out to accomplish, and the controversies it triggered during the author's lifetime. No reader of al-Ghazali should be without this."" --Frank Griffel, Professor of Islamic Studies, Yale University ""Garden's historically grounded reading of al-Ghazali reveals how Islam's scholars acted as guides for society and not mere seekers of wisdom for themselves. Tracing the connection between his thought and life work as self-proclaimed reviver of Islam, this study makes it now virtually impossible to look at al-Ghazali's writings apart from his efforts in society to bring about nothing less than the salvation and eternal happiness of his fellow believers."" --Paul L. Heck, author of Skepticism in Classical Islam: Moments of Confusion ""...Kenneth Garden has here given us a major publication on al-Ghazali. It is philologically rigorous and puts forward innovative views on al-Ghazali's place in Islamic intellectual history. In addition, the book is crafted in graceful and engaging prose that makes it very enjoyable to read. I recommend it to students and scholars of Islamic studies alike."" --Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations"
Author Information
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.
