God and logic in Islam the caliphate of reason

• Main Author: Walbridge, John (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Cambridge University Press 2011
• Subjects: Reason; Islamic philosophy; Logic; Faith and reason > Islam
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This book investigates the central role of reason in Islamic intellectual life. Despite widespread characterization of Islam as a system of belief based only on revelation, John Walbridge argues that rational methods, not fundamentalism, have characterized Islamic law, philosophy and education since...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Part I. The formation of the Islamic tradition of reason: 1. The problem of reason in Islam: is Islam a non-rational religion and civilization?; 2. The diversity of reason; 3. Empirical knowledge of the mind of God; 4. The failure of the Fåaråabian synthesis of religion and philosophy; 5. Mysticism, post-classical Islamic philosophy, and the rise and fall of Islamic science
• Part II. Logic, education, and doubt: 6. Where is Islamic logic?: the triumph of scholastic rationalism in Islamic education; 7. The long afternoon of Islamic logic; 8. The institutionalization of disagreement
• Part III. The fall and the future of Islamic rationalism: 9. The decline and fall of scholastic reason in Islam; 10. A chaos of certitudes: the future of Islamic reason