The first Islamic reviver
Subtitle: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and his Revival of the religious sciences
By: Kenneth Garden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780199989621
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Doctrines; Islamic renewal; 11.84 Islam: other; Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn (Ghazzālī); History; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1; title: Al-Ghazali Before His Revival -- -- Chapter 1; title: Al-Ghazall and the Seljuk Regime -- 17; title: Al-Ghazali's Service to the Seljuk Regime -- 19; title: Collapse into Civil War -- 22; title: Al-Ghazali's Crisis and Transformation in a Political Context -- 25 -- Chapter 2; title: The Scale of Action: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Ghazali on the Eve of His Departure from Baghdad -- 30; title: Sufism and Philosophy -- 31; title: The Scale of Action -- 40; title: Felicity in the Hereafter Is Attained through Knowledge and Practice -- 41; title: A Third Way -- 47; title: Are the "Theoreticians" and the Philosophers One and the Same? -- 49; title: Modifying Philosophy's Practical Science -- 53; title: Al-Ghazali and the Guides on the Path to Felicity -- 55; title: The Turning Point of 488/1095 -- 56 -- Part 2; title: The Revival of the Religious Sciences -- -- Chapter 3; title: The Revival and Its Agenda -- 63; title: The Content of the Revival -- 63; title: Felicity and the Telos of the Science of the Hereafter -- 70; title: The Science of Unveiling and the Theoretical Science -- 72; title: The Science of Praxis and the Practical Science -- 75; title: The Legal Ethics of the First Two Quarters -- 81; title: Acts of Worship -- 81; title: Acts of Daily Life -- 83; title: The Second Half on Ethical Self-Cultivation -- 87; title: Qualities Leading to Perdition -- 87; title: Qualities Leading to Salvation -- 92; title: Al-Ghazali's Cosmology -- 92; title: Love, Logic, and Death -- 98; title: Conclusion -- 101 -- Chapter 4; title: The Rhetoric of Revival: Authorizing Strategies and the Presentation of the Science of the Hereafter -- 104; title: Conjuring a Sense of Crisis -- 105; title: Fingering the Culprits: Who Killed the Religious Sciences? -- 107; title: Reviving the "Science of the Hereafter" -- 109; title: Demoting Law and Theology -- 111; title: The Law as a Science of the World -- 112; title: The Law's Eclipse of the Science of the Hereafter -- 112; title: Kalam's Eclipse of the Science of the Hereafter -- 115; title: The Science of the Hereafter Has Greater Authority than Law or Theology in the Key Jurisdictions of Those Disciplines -- 118; title: Did al-Ghazali's Authorizing Strategies Influence the Substance of the Revival as Well as Its Presentation? -- 120; title: Conclusion -- 121 -- Part 3; title: Promoting the Revival in the World -- -- Chapter 5; title: Promoting the Revival -- 125; title: Al-Ghazali's Self-Presentation to Members of the Regime -- 127; title: Writing Works on the Science of the Hereafter for Different Audiences -- 130; title: Polemics Against the Ibahiyya -- 133; title: Promoting Careers of Scholars of the Hereafter -- 134; title: Recruiting, Instructing, and Retaining Disciples -- 135; title: Fakhr al-Mulk: al-Ghazali's Vizier-Disciple -- 138; title: Conclusion -- 141 -- Chapter 6; title: Defending the Revival -- 143; title: Hopes for the Return to Teaching -- 147; title: The Controversy-What It Was About -- 149; title: Al-Ghazali Responds -- 155; title: Responding to Critics through The Distinguishing Criterion -- 156; title: Responding to Critics by Casting Himself as the Deliverer from Error -- 158; title: Al-Ghazali's Enemies Move against Him through an Outside Agent -- 161; title: Al-Ghazali's Summons and Trial-- 163.