1st Edition
Islamic Philosophy of Religion Essays from Analytic Perspectives
This volume focuses on Islamic philosophy of religion with a range of contributions from analytic perspectives. It opens with methodological discussions on the relationship between the history of Islamic philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy. The book then offers a philosophical examination of some specific Islamic beliefs as well as some approaches to general beliefs that Islam shares with other religions. The chapters address a variety of topics from the existence and attributes of God through to debates on science and religion. The authors are predominantly scholars from Muslim backgrounds who tackle philosophical issues concerning Islam as their own living religion, representing internal perspectives that have never been vocal in analytic philosophy of religion so far. This is valuable reading for scholars and students of philosophy, theology, and religious studies.
Introduction
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
PART I Methodology
1 What Can Contemporary Analytic Philosophy Do for the Historians of Islamic Philosophy?
Sajjad Rizvi
2 What Can the History of Islamic Philosophy Do for Contemporary Analytic Philosophers?
Anthony Booth
PART II Existence and Uniqueness of God
3 Kalām and Cognition
Mahrad Almotahari
4 God’s Existence and the Uniqueness Claim
Nazif Muhtaroglu
PART III: Attributes of God
5 Divine Power and Divine Knowledge
Edward Omar Moad
6 The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity Considered in Light of Averroes’s Conception of Divine Knowledge
Bakinaz Abdalla
PART IV: Miracles
7 The Metaphysics of Miracles: Avicenna on Natures and Prophetic Powers
Emann Allebban
8 Of Miracle of Miracles: An Introduction to the Qur’anic View of Miracle
Rouzbeh Touserkani
PART V: Faith and Its Obstacles
9 Faith, Knowledge, and Certainty: An Islamic Philosophy Perspective
Hamid Vahid
10 Islam and The Problem of Divine Hiddenness
Imran Aijaz
11 An Analysis of Some Problems of Evil from an Islamic Perspective
Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen
PART VI: Ethics and Morality
12 Islamic Philosophers' Idea of Heaven: A Moral Analysis
Amir Saemi
13 Towards Epistemic Justice in Islam
Fatema Amijee
PART VII: Science and Religion
14 Adam, Eve, and Human Evolution: Is There a Conflict?
Shoaib Ahmed Malik
15 Islamic Occasionalism within the context of Modern Religion and Science Debate
Ozgur Koca
Biography
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests include medieval Islamic philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy mathematics, and philosophy of mind.
