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Epistemology of the Quran

Elements of a Virtue Approach to Knowledge and Understanding

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvM. Ashraf Adeel

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This book examines all verses of the Quran involving knowledge related concepts. While not overlooking the Quranic emphasis on revelation as a source of knowledge, the book draws our attention to a remarkable overlap between some strains of contemporary virtue epistemology and Quranic approach to knowledge.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-08-14
Mått155 x 235 x 12 mm
Vikt238 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
Antal sidor132
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030175603

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Former Vice Chancellor of Hazara University in Pakistan, M. Ashraf Adeel is Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in Philosophy of Science/Language with distinction from University of Hawaii, has held Professorship at University of Peshawar, and was a Senior Visiting Fellow at Linacre College Oxford in 1999. He publishes research in Philosophy of Science and Language as well as Modern Islamic Thought and is a poet and playwright.

1. Epistemic Concepts in the Quran.- 2. From Ignorance to Knowledge: Deriving Epistemic Virtues from the Quranic Conception of Ignorance.- 3. Quran on Knowledge: An Analysis of Etymological Variants of ‘i-l-m in the Text.- 4. On Understanding.- 5. Epistemic Virtues in the Quran and the Role of Epistemic Conscience.- 6. Value-Problem in Contemporary Western Epistemology and the Quranic Concept of Understanding.- 7. Concept of Wisdom in the Quran.- 8. Implications of the Quranic Epistemology for Religion and Secularism.