Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
Contents:
70 -- Felicity and the Telos of the Science of the Hereafter Chapter 1 Al-Ghazall and the Seljuk Regime 17 -- Al-Ghazali's Service to the Seljuk Regime 19 -- Collapse into Civil War 22 -- Al-Ghazali's Crisis and Transformation in a Political Context 25 -- Chapter 2 The Scale of Action: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Ghazali on the Eve of His Departure from Baghdad 30 -- Sufism and Philosophy 31 -- The Scale of Action 40 -- Felicity in the Hereafter Is Attained through Knowledge and Practice 41 -- A Third Way 47 -- Are the "Theoreticians" and the Philosophers One and the Same? 49 -- Modifying Philosophy's Practical Science 53 -- Al-Ghazali and the Guides on the Path to Felicity 55 -- The Turning Point of 488/1095 56 -- Part 2 The Revival of the Religious Sciences -- Chapter 3 The Revival and Its Agenda 63 -- The Content of the Revival 63 -- Felicity and the Telos of the Science of the Hereafter 70 -- Kalam's Eclipse of the Science of the Hereafter 115 -- The Science of Praxis and the Practical Science 75 -- The Legal Ethics of the First Two Quarters 81 -- Acts of Worship 81 -- Acts of Daily Life 83 -- The Second Half on Ethical Self-Cultivation 87 -- Qualities Leading to Perdition 87 -- Qualities Leading to Salvation 92 -- Al-Ghazali's Cosmology 92 -- Love, Logic, and Death 98 -- Conclusion 101 -- Chapter 4 The Rhetoric of Revival: Authorizing Strategies and the Presentation of the Science of the Hereafter 104 -- Conjuring a Sense of Crisis 105 -- Fingering the Culprits: Who Killed the Religious Sciences? 107 -- Reviving the "Science of the Hereafter" 109 -- Demoting Law and Theology 111 -- The Law as a Science of the World 112 -- The Law's Eclipse of the Science of the Hereafter 112 -- Kalam's Eclipse of the Science of the Hereafter 115 -- Responding to Critics through The Distinguishing Criterion 156 -- Did al-Ghazali's Authorizing Strategies Influence the Substance of the Revival as Well as Its Presentation? 120 -- Conclusion 121 -- Part 3 Promoting the Revival in the World -- Chapter 5 Promoting the Revival 125 -- Al-Ghazali's Self-Presentation to Members of the Regime 127 -- Writing Works on the Science of the Hereafter for Different Audiences 130 -- Polemics Against the Ibahiyya 133 -- Promoting Careers of Scholars of the Hereafter 134 -- Recruiting, Instructing, and Retaining Disciples 135 -- Fakhr al-Mulk: al-Ghazali's Vizier-Disciple 138 -- Conclusion 141 -- Chapter 6 Defending the Revival 143 -- Hopes for the Return to Teaching 147 -- The Controversy-What It Was About 149 -- Al-Ghazali Responds 155 -- Responding to Critics through The Distinguishing Criterion 156 -- Al-Ghazali's Summons and Trial 163. Al-Ghazali's Enemies Move against Him through an Outside Agent 161 -- Al-Ghazali's Summons and Trial 163.
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