Al-Ghazali The Islamic Reformer
Subtitle: An evaluative study of the attempts of Imam al-Ghazali at Islamic Reform (Islah)
Publisher: Islamic Book Trust
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9789675062827
Description: Numerous studies have been done on Imam al-Ghzali (1058-1111) in almost all major languages. So much is the academic attention given to him, and deservedly so, that it is difficult to find any element of originality in a new study on him. Various aspects of his life and thought have yet to be adequately studied, one of them being his role in islah (Islamic reform). It is also true that the study of islah as a separate topic is somewhat new, and available literature on the subject is limited within the views and the achievements of a number of distinguished scholars in the modern times. This work attempts to discover part of the rich legacy of the reformers by introducing a pre-modern scholar as Imam al-Ghazali.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgement; title: Glossary; title: Introduction; title: The literature on al-Ghazālī; title: The problem; title: The hypothesis; title: The methodology and the structure; title: 1 Analytical definition of iṣlāḥ; title: Iṣlāḥ in the Arabic language; title: The Islamic perspective of iṣlāḥ; title: Phrasing the definition of iṣlāḥ; title: Iṣlāḥ and reform: Degree of equivalence; title: The relationship between iṣlāḥ and other concepts; title: 2 Setting the historical context; title: Introduction; title: The overall condition of Islamdom; title: The political setting; title: The first crusade and the Muslim response; title: The religio-intellectual life; title: 3 The life-experience of al-Ghazālī; title: Introduction; title: Dependent learning and premature authorship; title: Highly distinguished scholarly career; title: Epistemological crisis; title: Independent examination of the seekers after truth; title: Serious inspection of the inner state; title: Seclusion and self-iṣlāḥ; title: Striving for general iṣlāḥ; title: 4 Survey of al-Ghazālī’s iṣlāḥī efforts; title: Introduction; title: Al-Ghazālī’s diagnosis of fasād; title: Al-Ghazālī’s iṣlāḥī attempts to eradicate the roots of fasād; title: Al-Ghazālī’s iṣlāḥī treatments of the phenomena of fasād; title: 5 Assessment of al-Ghazālī’s iṣlāḥī teachings; title: Introduction; title: Originality; title: Clarity; title: Deepness; title: Balance between individualism and collectivism; title: Realism and practicality; title: Islamic-justification; title: 6 The effects of al-Ghazālī’s attempts at iṣlāḥ; title: The impact of al-Ghazālī’s iṣlāḥī teachings on his pupils; title: The claimed studentship of Ibn Tūmārt under al-Ghazālī; title: The influence of the Iḥyā’; title: Al-Ghazālī’s effect on sufism; title: The effect on the movement of philosophy; title: The effect of al-Ghazālī’s quarrel with the Bāṭinīs; title: The influence of al-Ghazālī on the successive iṣlāḥī movement; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix 1; title: Appendix 2; title: Bibliography; title: Index