Intellectual Thought of Al-Ghazālī

Ali Mirsepassi is the Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University. He is co-editor of The Global Middle East, a book series published by Cambridge. Recent publications include The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran (2023), The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan (2022) and Iran's Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State (Cambridge, 2019). Tadd Graham Fernée is a lecturer in legal methodology and institutions at Tours University, France. Fernée is author of Enlightenment and Violence (2014) and Beyond the Circle of Violence and Progress (2023), and co-author of Islam, Democracy and Cosmopolitanism (2014).

• Introduction; 1. The time and life of Ghazālī; 2. Reading Ghazālī in the West; 3. The poetic imagination and the politics of ambiguity; 4. The new orthodoxy in the academic study of Islam; 5. A path to reform: escape from madrasa; 6. A cosmopolitan reading of Ghazālī; 7. Ghazālī's practical ethics; Bibliography; Index.