[3] Nakamura translated and commented on portions of Al-Ghazali's Revival of Religious Sciences, his most important work, for the Islamic Texts Society in 1992.
[6] Nakamura's Islam and Modernity also focuses on what he held are four main streams of modern Islamic thought in order to frame Islamic studies within the wider field of religious studies.
[8] Nakamura received his PhD from Harvard University in 1970.
[9] Nakamura died from a subdural hematoma on 5 December 2023, at the age of 87.
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