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The first Islamic reviver : Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the religious sciences / Kenneth Garden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780199989638
  • 019998963X
  • 9780199395590
  • 0199395594
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: First Islamic reviverDDC classification:
  • 297.2 23
LOC classification:
  • BP80.G3 G37 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction. A Misleading Autobiography -- Recent Reassessments -- Al-Ghazali the Reviver -- Chapter Overview
pt. 1. Al-Ghazali Before His Revival. Al-Ghazali and the Seljuk Regime -- The Scale of Action : An Intellectual Portrait of al-Ghazali on the Eve of His Departure from Baghdad
pt. 2. The Revival of the Religious Sciences. The Revival and Its Agenda -- The Rhetoric of Revival: Authorizing Strategies and the Presentation of the Science of the Hereafter
pt. 3. Promoting the Revival in the World. Promoting the Revival -- Defending the Revival -- Epilogue--Rereading the Deliverer.
Summary: This title presents a new biography of al-Ghazali's final decade and a half, presenting him not as a reclusive spiritual seeker, but as an engaged Islamic revivalist seeking to reshape his religious tradition.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)664212

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

This title presents a new biography of al-Ghazali's final decade and a half, presenting him not as a reclusive spiritual seeker, but as an engaged Islamic revivalist seeking to reshape his religious tradition.

Introduction. A Misleading Autobiography -- Recent Reassessments -- Al-Ghazali the Reviver -- Chapter Overview

pt. 1. Al-Ghazali Before His Revival. Al-Ghazali and the Seljuk Regime -- The Scale of Action : An Intellectual Portrait of al-Ghazali on the Eve of His Departure from Baghdad

pt. 2. The Revival of the Religious Sciences. The Revival and Its Agenda -- The Rhetoric of Revival: Authorizing Strategies and the Presentation of the Science of the Hereafter

pt. 3. Promoting the Revival in the World. Promoting the Revival -- Defending the Revival -- Epilogue--Rereading the Deliverer.