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Japanese scholar of Islam (1936–2023)

Kojiro Nakamura (中村 廣治郎, Nakamura Kōjirō, 1936 – 5 December 2023) was a Japanese scholar of Islam.

He was professor emeritus of Islamic studies at both Tokyo University and Oberlin University.^[1][2] Tokyo University's Department of Islamic Studies was the first such department in Japan, established in 1982 with Nakamura appointed its first professor.^[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.^[4][5] Much of Nakamura's effort had been spent on analysis of al-Ghazali's works, a number of which Nakamura has translated to the Japanese language.^[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.^[7] He a