Analytic Islamic Epistemology

Critical Debates

368 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Religiöse Aspekte Theologie
• ISBN: 9781399533126
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2025
• Größe: 241 x 163 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Ramon Harvey, Safaruk Chowdhury