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analytic philosophy
belief
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epistemology
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Islamic philosophy
Islamic Philosophy and Religion
justification
knowledge
philosophy of Islam

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  • ISBN 9781399533126
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Aug 2025
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.
About
Safaruk Chowdhury is a visiting lecturer at Cambridge Muslim College. He is the author of Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil (The American University in Cairo Press, 2021) and A Ṣūfī Apologist of Nīshāpūr: The Life and Thought of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (Equinox, 2019). Ramon Harvey is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College. He is the author of Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and The Qur'an and the Just Society (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).