The First Islamic Reviver

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.

• 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

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.