Table of Contents

1 Primary Scholarship on Ghazali and Law 2 Politics and Natural Law 3 The Foundation of Ghazali’s Society 4 Ethics and Society 5 Authority and Law Conclusion

About the Author

Dr. Yazeed Said is an affiliated member of Faculty at McGill University in Montreal and a scholar in residence at Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. He completed his PhD at Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge in 2010 and has lectured widely on subjects related to Ghazali, Islam, political theology, and contemporary issues relating to Israel and Palestine. A Palestinian born Israeli citizen, ordained as an Anglican priest; he has served in the diocese of Jerusalem, Cambridge, Vancouver, and Montreal.

Reviews

"Said’s book is a valuable addition to the relatively small bookshelf on the political in al-Ghazālī’s oeuvre. Its main contribution lies in the author’s inclusion of texts and teachings that others involved in this debate have not yet considered. If more studies like this one appear, we may one day be able to offer a more contextualized analysis of Ash‘arite political theory and check whether claims such as Anjum’s, that an elitist attitude to politics led to a crisis, are justified." - Frank Griffel, Professor of Islamic Studies, Yale University, NAZARİYAT Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences