Mohammed Moussa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, whose research interests lie primarily in the Islamic tradition and change.

"The book is an authoritative work on the political thoughts of Muhammad al-Ghazali and provides an excellent insight into the history of al-Ghazali’s thought and contemporary modernist thought in Egypt"Shahrul Hussain, Markfield Institute of Higher Education, UK "Moussa’s book tells us an eye-opening new narrative on the modern history of Islam, with neither Western influence, nor Islamic resurgence, but a continued project of renewal on the grounds of the ethos of Islam." Dr. Emi Goto, University of Tokyo, Japan

• Introduction Chapter 1: Biography of Muhammad al-Ghazali Chapter 2: Survey of Literature on Muhammad al-Ghazali Chapter 3: Renewal in the Formation of the Islamic Tradition Chapter 4: Muhammad al-Ghazali’s Rethinking of Islam Chapter 5: The Shari’ah and Politics in Muhammad al-Ghazali’s Thought Chapter 6: The Tendency of Renewal among Muhammad al-Ghazali’s Peers Conclusion

Mohammed Moussa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, whose research interests lie primarily in the Islamic tradition and change.

"The book is an authoritative work on the political thoughts of Muhammad al-Ghazali and provides an excellent insight into the history of al-Ghazali’s thought and contemporary modernist thought in Egypt"Shahrul Hussain, Markfield Institute of Higher Education, UK "Moussa’s book tells us an eye-opening new narrative on the modern history of Islam, with neither Western influence, nor Islamic resurgence, but a continued project of renewal on the grounds of the ethos of Islam." Dr. Emi Goto, University of Tokyo, Japan

• Introduction Chapter 1: Biography of Muhammad al-Ghazali Chapter 2: Survey of Literature on Muhammad al-Ghazali Chapter 3: Renewal in the Formation of the Islamic Tradition Chapter 4: Muhammad al-Ghazali’s Rethinking of Islam Chapter 5: The Shari’ah and Politics in Muhammad al-Ghazali’s Thought Chapter 6: The Tendency of Renewal among Muhammad al-Ghazali’s Peers Conclusion