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Place of Birth: Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
About Kojiro Nakamura
- Kojiro Nakamura (?? ??? Nakamura Kojiro) is a Japanese scholar of Islam.
- He is professor emeritus of Islamic studies at both Tokyo University and Oberlin University.
- Tokyo University's Department of Islamic Studies was the first such department in Japan, established in 1982 with Nakamura appointed as its first professor.He translated and commented on portions of Al-Ghazali's Revival of Religious Sciences, his most important work, for the Islamic Texts Society in 1992.
- Much of Nakamura's effort has been spent on analysis of al-Ghazali's works, a number of which Nakamura has translated to the Japanese language.
- Nakamura's Islam and Modernity also focuses on what he holds are four main streams of modern Islamic thought in order to frame Islamic studies within the wider field of religious studies.
- He also served as a conference chair at the first al-Manar conference organized by Routledge.He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1970.
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