Education
University of Tokyo.
中村 廣治郎
University of Tokyo.
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 First Rate (at Lloyd's)-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.
He also served as a conference chair at the first al-Manar conference organized by Routledge.