Intellectual Thought of Al-Ghazali

"This study investigates the intellectual legacy of Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali(1058-1111), an influential thinker of the classical Islamic period. Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernee study Ghazalis major Persian-language text Kåimiya-e sa adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) presenting a new understanding of Ghazali as a reformer of his own time"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The time and life of Ghaz¿l¿; 2. Reading Ghaz¿l¿ 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 Ghaz¿l¿; 7. Ghaz¿l¿'s practical ethics; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

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).

Summary

This study investigates the intellectual legacy of Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058–1111), an influential thinker of the classical Islamic period. Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernée study Ghazali's major Persian-language text Kimiya-e sa?adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) presenting a new understanding of Ghazali as a reformer of his own time.

Product details

• Authors: Tadd Graham Fernee, Tadd Graham (University of Tours) Fernee, Tadd Graham Fernée, Ali Mirsepassi, Ali (New York University) Mirsepassi, Ali (New York University) Fernee Mirsepassi, Mirsepassi Ali
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009538169
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0953816-9
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: The Global Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Middle Eastern history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, 11th century, c 1000 to c 1099, 12th century, c 1100 to c 1199