In Egypt of the late twentieth century, the figure who strove hardest and most successfully to accomplish this was Muhammad Ghazali, an Al-Azhar scholar and a disciple of Shaltut. His countless books on every aspect of Islam and reviving its proper understanding, with titles like Our Intellectual Heritage, Renew Your Life and Islam and Women’s Issues, still sell briskly at Cairo’s impromptu sidewalk bookstalls. Through the decades of his prolific writing and serving as an imam in Cairo’s leading mosques, Ghazali picked many fights and earned even more admirers.
