The Archetypal Sunni Scholar - Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of Al-bajuri

Considers the work of nineteenth-century theologian Ibrahim al-Bajuri and contests the notion of intellectual decline in Islamic thought from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries.

About the author

Aaron Spevack is Assistant Professor of Religion at Colgate University. He translated and annotated Ghazali on the Principles of Islamic Spirituality: Selections from The Forty Foundations of Religion--Annotated and Explained.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Spevack
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781438453705
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5370-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions