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  • Analytic Islamic Epistemology: Critical Debates

    Analytic Islamic Epistemology by Chowdhury, Safaruk; Harvey, Ramon;

    Critical Debates

    Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology;

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    • Publisher Edinburgh University Press
    • Date of Publication 31 August 2025
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9781399533126
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 1 black and white table
    • 700

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    Short description:

    The first collected volume on the Islamic tradition and analytic epistemology in conversation.

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    Long description:

    Epistemology has a distinguished history within Islamic philosophical and theological discourses. Muslim scholars sought to explain what knowledge was, where it came from, and how it could be justified. They were especially interested in religious knowledge and the core question of why human beings were justified in their belief in God and the Prophet Muhammad.

    In this volume, editors Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey, alongside fifteen contributing authors, put this vibrant tradition of thought into sustained dialogue with contemporary analytic philosophy of religion and clarify what is at stake in their mutual interaction. The text acts, therefore, as a founding document for the new subfield of analytic Islamic epistemology. By bringing together the insights of intellectual historians, comparative religionists, philosophers of religion and analytic epistemologists, this book maps historical articulations of Islamic epistemology, the ongoing conversation with Christian counterparts, the advancement of key existing debates, and proposals for the future.

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    Table of Contents:

    Notes on Contributors
    Acknowledgements

    Introduction: From Islamic Theology to Analytic Philosophy
    Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey

    Part I. Epistemology outside Kal?m: Falsafa, Traditionalism and Sufism

    1. A New Look at al-F?r?b? on Philosophy versus Theology
    Anthony Robert Booth
    2. God as an Empirical Entity: The Expanded Scope of Sense Perception in Sunn? Traditionalist Spatialism
    Jon Hoover
    3. The Tripartite Division of Knowledge and Belief in al-Makk?’s Nourishment of the Hearts
    Harith Ramli

    Part II. Epistemological Sources in Kal?m: Perception, Reason and Testimony

    4. How to Know?: Justifying Experience in Classical Kal?m
    Hannah C. Erlwein
    5. Divine Freedom meets Logical Necessity: On the Relationship between Rational Speculation and Knowledge in Classical Ash?ar? Foundationalism
    Laura Hassan
    6. Mass Transmission of Prophetic Miracles in the Contemplation and Proof of Core Creed
    Aaron Spevack

    Part III. Comparative Studies in Islamic and Christian Epistemology

    7. The Epistemological Status of Causation within al-Ghaz?l?’s Cosmological Argument in Light of Reid’s Modest Foundationalism
    Ayşenur Ünügür-Tabur
    8. ‘Is There any Doubt about God?’: Maktab-i Tafk?k’s Religious Epistemology in Comparison with Reformed Epistemology
    Amir Mohammad Emami
    9. Knowing God Personally: Second-Person Knowledge in Christian and Islamic Analytic Theology
    David Worsley

    Part IV. Contemporary Debates on the Basicality of Islamic and Christian Belief

    10. Fi?ra Foundationalism
    Jamie B. Turner
    11. Dealing with Defeaters for Warranted Islamic Belief: A Reply to Turner
    Erik Baldwin
    12. Creation, Sin and Salvation: Essential Categories for a Christian-Theistic Epistemology
    K. Scott Oliphint

    Part V. Islamic Epistemology Today: Disciplinary, Scriptural and Social Discourses

    13. Advice for Muslim Epistemologists
    Kelly James Clark
    14. Epistemological Foundations of Qur’anic Ethics: Understanding, Wisdom and Righteousness
    M. Ashraf Adeel
    15. Individualism and Anti-individualism in Islamic Epistemology
    John Greco

    Afterword: Epistemological Themes Revisited
    Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey

    Glossary of Arabic Terminology
    Glossary of Analytic Epistemological Terminology
    Index

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