1st Edition

Islam A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation

By Imran Aijaz Copyright 2018
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

Islam as a religion and a way of life guides millions of people around the world and has a significant impact on worldly affairs. To many Muslims, however, a philosophical understanding or assessment of Islamic belief is seen as a feeble and religiously inappropriate attempt to understand matters that are beyond rational comprehension. Islam: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation explores... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Can Islam Be Investigated Philosophically?

2. Classical Traditionalist Fideism in Islam

3. Classical Scholastic Fideism in Islam

4. Contemporary Fideism in Islam

5. Rationalist Arguments for Islamic Belief

6. Religious Doubt, Islamic Faith and The Skeptical Muslim

Biography

Imran Aijaz is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.

 

Series editors:

Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel College, USA.

Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College, USA.

"Clear and well-argued throughout, a serious contribution to the longstanding debate of how Islam and philosophy can coexist."

- Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA

"It succeeds in linking contemporary investigations to Islam."

- Wisnu Adihartono, Reading Religion