Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: From Islamic Theology to Analytic Philosophy 1
6. Part I Epistemology outside Kalām: Falsafa, Traditionalism and Sufism
7. 1 A New Look at al-Fārābī on Philosophy versus Theology 47
8. 2 God as an Empirical Entity: The Expanded Scope of Sense Perception in Sunnī Traditionalist Spatialism 66
9. 3 The Tripartite Division of Knowledge and Belief in al-Makkī’s Nourishment of the Hearts 80
10. Part II Epistemological Sources in Kalām: Perception, Reason and Testimony
11. 4 How to Know? Justifying Experience in Classical Kalām 101
12. 5 Divine Freedom meets Logical Necessity: On the Relationship between Rational Speculation and Knowledge in Classical Ashʿarī Foundationalism 118
13. 6 Mass Transmission of Prophetic Miracles in the Contemplation and Proof of Core Creed 133
14. Part III Comparative Studies in Islamic and Christian Epistemology
15. 7 The Epistemological Status of Causation within al-Ghazālī’s Cosmological Argument in Light of Reid’s Modest Foundationalism 159
16. 8 ‘Is There Any Doubt about God?’: Maktab-i Tafkīk’s Religious Epistemology in Comparison with Reformed Epistemology 173
17. 9 Knowing God Personally: Second-person Knowledge in Christian and Islamic Analytic Theology 195
18. Part IV Contemporary Debates on the Basicality of Islamic and Christian Belief
19. 10 Fiṭra Foundationalism 217
20. 11 Dealing with Defeaters for Warranted Islamic Belief: A Reply to Turner 249
21. 12 Creation, Sin and Salvation: Essential Categories for a Christian-Theistic Epistemology 261
22. Part V Islamic Epistemology Today: Disciplinary, Scriptural and Social Discourses
23. 13 Advice for Muslim Epistemologists 283
24. 14 Epistemological Foundations of Qur’anic Ethics: Understanding, Wisdom and Righteousness 300
25. 15 Individualism and Anti-individualism in Islamic Epistemology 317
26. Afterword: Epistemological Themes Revisited 333
27. Glossary of Arabic Epistemological Terminology 336
28. Glossary of Analytic Epistemological Terminology 339
29. Index 342