First Islamic Reviver

<p>Building on recent revisionist scholarship this book offers a new account of the last two decades of the life of the seminal twelfth-century Islamic thinker Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d.1111).  It refocuses attention on his masterpiece the Revival of the Religious Sciences and argues that al-Ghazali was the first Muslim thinker to self-consciously marshal the rhetoric of revivval to promote his new vision of the Islamic religious sciences.</p>