Machine generated contents note: 1. Islam and Reason -- Introduction -- Islam: The Beginning -- Tawhid and Reason -- Sunna and Hadith -- The Caliphate -- The Mu'tazilites -- The Hanbalites and Ash'arites -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 2. The Greek Legacy -- Introduction -- Plato's Heavens First Epistemology -- The Argument from the Meno -- Objections to the Argument from the Meno -- Heavens First Epistemology in the Phaedo -- Plotinus -- The One -- Emanation -- Aristotle and Experience First Epistemology -- Aristotle's Third Man Argument -- Essences -- Function and Matter -- Understanding, Knowledge, and the Four Causes -- Aristotle's De Anima and the Active Intellect -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 3. Al-Kindi and the Rise of Falsafa -- Introduction -- Al-Kindi: A Short Biography -- Al-Kindi's Evidentialism -- Questions for al-Kindi's Evidentialism -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 4. Al-Farabi and Islamic Moderate Evidentialism -- Introduction
Note continued: Al-Farabi: A Very Short Biography -- Philosophy Versus Prophecy -- Grammar Versus Logic -- Islamic Moderate Evidentialism -- The Conditions of Certainty -- The Plato-Aristotle Fusion -- Emanation and the Active Intellect -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 5. Avicenna and the Modality of the World -- Introduction -- Avicenna: A Very Short Biography -- Essence and Existence -- Avicenna on the Active Intellect and Prophesy -- Self-Consciousness and the Flying Man Argument -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 6. Anti-evidentialism and Al-Ghazali's Attack on Falsafa -- Introduction -- Al-Ghazali: A Very Brief Biography -- The Three Sources and Moderate Anti-Evidentialism -- Sufi Mysticism -- The Fatwa -- Al-Ghazali Against Moderate Evidentialism -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 7. The Philosophers Strike Back: Averroes and Islamic Philosophy After al-Ghazali -- Introduction -- Averroes: A Very Brief Biography
Note continued: The Modality and Pre-eternity of the World Revisited -- The Resurrection of the Flesh and God's Knowledge of Particulars Revisited -- Averroes' Decisive Defence of Islamic Moderate Evidentialism -- Averroeism and the Rise of Islamic Modernism and Neo-Islamic Moderate Evidentialism -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 8. Islamic Philosophy and Politics -- Introduction -- The Prophet Law-Maker, Allegory and Rhetoric -- Ideology, Propaganda, Colonialism -- Doxastic Normativity, Human Perfection, and the Utopian City-State -- The Imperfect Cities, Democracy and Liberalism -- Extremist Belief -- Concluding Remarks -- References.
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