Kenneth Garden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1694463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Garden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Garden |
| SIGNATURE | GARDEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Riḥla and Self-Reinvention of Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī
The Andalusi Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 543/1148), one of the great figures of the Mālikī tradition, gained his scholarly credentials through a journey to seek knowledge in the East (riḥla fī ṭalab al-ʿilm). He commemorated his journey in a travelogue so widely admired that it initiated a new genre of Arabic travel writing. This article examines both the journey and the travelogue as strategies Abū Bakr employed to regain his family's elite statu…
The first Islamic reviver
Duncan Macdonald's Pioneering Study of al‐Ghazālī
Coming Down from the Mountaintop
The Muslim WorldVolume 101, Issue 4 p. 581-596 Coming Down from the Mountaintop: Al-Ghazālī's Autobiographical Writings in Context Kenneth Garden, Kenneth Garden Tufts University I would like to thank Afifi al-Akiti for his insightful feedback and also Muhammad Hozien, without whose ghazali.org I would not have been able to write this article while away from my library.Search for more papers by this author Kenneth Garden, Kenneth Garden Tufts Uni…
Riḥla and Self-Reinvention of Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī
The Andalusi Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 543/1148), one of the great figures of the Mālikī tradition, gained his scholarly credentials through a journey to seek knowledge in the East (riḥla fī ṭalab al-ʿilm). He commemorated his journey in a travelogue so widely admired that it initiated a new genre of Arabic travel writing. This article examines both the journey and the travelogue as strategies Abū Bakr employed to regain his family's elite statu…
Coming Down from the Mountaintop
The Muslim WorldVolume 101, Issue 4 p. 581-596 Coming Down from the Mountaintop: Al-Ghazālī's Autobiographical Writings in Context Kenneth Garden, Kenneth Garden Tufts University I would like to thank Afifi al-Akiti for his insightful feedback and also Muhammad Hozien, without whose ghazali.org I would not have been able to write this article while away from my library.Search for more papers by this author Kenneth Garden, Kenneth Garden Tufts Uni…
Coming Down from the Mountaintop
The Muslim WorldVolume 101, Issue 4 p. 581-596 Coming Down from the Mountaintop: Al-Ghazālī's Autobiographical Writings in Context Kenneth Garden, Kenneth Garden Tufts University I would like to thank Afifi al-Akiti for his insightful feedback and also Muhammad Hozien, without whose ghazali.org I would not have been able to write this article while away from my library.Search for more papers by this author Kenneth Garden, Kenneth Garden Tufts Uni…
The first Islamic reviver
Duncan Macdonald's Pioneering Study of al‐Ghazālī
Riḥla and Self-Reinvention of Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī
The Andalusi Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 543/1148), one of the great figures of the Mālikī tradition, gained his scholarly credentials through a journey to seek knowledge in the East (riḥla fī ṭalab al-ʿilm). He commemorated his journey in a travelogue so widely admired that it initiated a new genre of Arabic travel writing. This article examines both the journey and the travelogue as strategies Abū Bakr employed to regain his family's elite statu…
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