Analytic Islamic Epistemology

Critical Debates

Safaruk Chowdhury, Ramon Harvey (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3312-6 (ISBN)

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

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.

Safaruk Chowdhury is a visiting lecturer at Cambridge Muslim College. He is the author of Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil (The American University in Cairo Press, 2021) and A Ṣūfī Apologist of Nīshāpūr: The Life and Thought of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (Equinox, 2019). Ramon Harvey is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College. He is the author of Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and The Qur'an and the Just Society (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

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

Part I. Epistemology outside Kalām: Falsafa, Traditionalism and Sufism

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

Part II. Epistemological Sources in Kalām: Perception, Reason and Testimony

4. How to Know?: Justifying Experience in Classical Kalām
Hannah C. Erlwein
5. Divine Freedom meets Logical Necessity: On the Relationship between Rational Speculation and Knowledge in Classical Ashʿarī 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-Ghazālī’s Cosmological Argument in Light of Reid’s Modest Foundationalism
Ayşenur Ünügür-Tabur
8. ‘Is There any Doubt about God?’: Maktab-i Tafkīk’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. Fiṭra 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

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology
Zusatzinfo	1 black and white table
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-3995-3312-6 / 1399533126
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-3312-6 / 9781399533126
Zustand	Neuware