Analytic Islamic epistemology : critical debates / edited by Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chowdhury, S. Z., editor.

Harvey, Ramon, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in Islamic scripture and theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic philosophy.

Knowledge, Theory of (Islam).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"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"-- De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Introduction : from Islamic theology to analytic philosophy / Safaruk Chowdhury, Ramon Harvey

A new look at al-Fārābī on philosophy versus theology / Anthony Robert Booth

God as an empirical entity : the expanded scope of sense perception in Sunnī traditionalist spatialism / Jon Hoover

The tripartite division of knowledge and belief in al-Makkī’s Nourishment of the Hearts / Harith Ramli

How to know? justifying experience in classical kalām / Hannah C. Erlwein

Divine freedom meets logical necessity : on the relationship between rational speculation and knowledge in classical Ashʿarī foundationalism / Laura Hassan

Mass transmission of prophetic miracles in The Contemplation and Proof of Core Creed / Aaron Spevack

The epistemological status of causation within al-Ghazālī’s cosmological argument in light of Reid’s modest foundationalism / Ayşenur Ünügür-Tabur

“Is there any doubt about God?” : Maktab‑i Tafkīk’s religious epistemology in comparison with reformed epistemology / Amir Mohammad Emami

Knowing God personally : second‑person knowledge in Christian and Islamic analytic theology / David Worsley

Fiṭra foundationalism / Jamie B. Turner

Dealing with defeaters for warranted Islamic belief : a reply to Turner / Erik Baldwin

Creation, sin and salvation : essential categories for a Christian‑theistic epistemology / K. Scott Oliphint

Advice for Muslim epistemologists / Kelly James Clark

Epistemological foundations of Qur’anic ethics : understanding, wisdom and righteousness / M. Ashraf Adeel

Individualism and anti‑individualism in Islamic epistemology / John Greco

Afterword : epistemological themes revisited / Safaruk Chowdhury, Ramon Harvey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed February 12, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Analytic Islamic epistemology

ISBN:

9781399533157

1399533150

9781399533140

1399533142

OCLC:

1492841518

Publisher Number:

CIPO000258388

CIPO000258389

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access