Analytic Islamic Epistemology

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 ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: From Islamic Theology to Analytic PhilosophySafaruk Chowdhury and Ramon HarveyPart I. Epistemology outside Kalām: Falsafa, Traditionalism and Sufism1. A New Look at al-Fārābī on Philosophy versus TheologyAnthony Robert Booth2. God as an Empirical Entity: The Expanded Scope of Sense Perception in Sunnī Traditionalist SpatialismJon Hoover3. The Tripartite Division of Knowledge and Belief in al-Makkī’s Nourishment of the HeartsHarith RamliPart II. Epistemological Sources in Kalām: Perception, Reason and Testimony 4. How to Know?: Justifying Experience in Classical KalāmHannah C. Erlwein5. Divine Freedom meets Logical Necessity: On the Relationship between Rational Speculation and Knowledge in Classical Ashʿarī FoundationalismLaura Hassan6. Mass Transmission of Prophetic Miracles in the Contemplation and Proof of Core CreedAaron SpevackPart 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 FoundationalismAyşenur Ünügür-Tabur8. ‘Is There any Doubt about God?’: Maktab-i Tafkīk’s Religious Epistemology in Comparison with Reformed EpistemologyAmir Mohammad Emami9. Knowing God Personally: Second-Person Knowledge in Christian and Islamic Analytic TheologyDavid WorsleyPart IV. Contemporary Debates on the Basicality of Islamic and Christian Belief10. Fiṭra FoundationalismJamie B. Turner11. Dealing with Defeaters for Warranted Islamic Belief: A Reply to TurnerErik Baldwin12. Creation, Sin and Salvation: Essential Categories for a Christian-Theistic EpistemologyK. Scott OliphintPart V. Islamic Epistemology Today: Disciplinary, Scriptural and Social Discourses13. Advice for Muslim EpistemologistsKelly James Clark14. Epistemological Foundations of Qur’anic Ethics: Understanding, Wisdom and RighteousnessM. Ashraf Adeel15. Individualism and Anti-individualism in Islamic EpistemologyJohn GrecoAfterword: Epistemological Themes RevisitedSafaruk Chowdhury and Ramon HarveyGlossary of Arabic TerminologyGlossary of Analytic Epistemological TerminologyIndex

This book will provide impetus for the integration of the Islamic tradition into the epistemology of religion, a field that has long been dominated by Christian perspectives. The contributors include some of the more promising younger scholars in the field and the papers cover a wide range of topics within Islamic philosophy and other relevant fields of Islamic culture.