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Document Details : Title: Muhammad al-Ghazālī on the Muslim Conquest of Egypt Subtitle: A Contemporary Polemic on the Eve of the Nasser Revolution Author(s): TERMONIA, M. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 31 Date: 2000 - 2005 Pages: 213-222 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.31.0.565552 Abstract : First the author gives a brief biographical note of Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, especially focusing on the period which is dealt with in the article, namely the beginning of the fifties. Secondly the author discusses the text of Muḥammad al-Ghazālī itself, comparing it with the book of the so-called “crusader-writer”. Finally the author focuses on this polemic war itself, which played in the Egyptian press, and on its consequences, mostly based on personal documents of “al-kātib aṣ-ṣalībī” and on interviews with his family in Cairo. |
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