BOOK LAUNCH COURSE: ANALYTIC ISLAMIC EPISTEMOLOGY CRITICAL DEBATES

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BOOK LAUNCH COURSE: ANALYTIC ISLAMIC EPISTEMOLOGY CRITICAL DEBATES

In this course, we will have presentations from Professor Anthony Robert Booth [Professor of Ethics & Epistemology, Sussex University], Dr Ayşenur Ünügür-Tabur[Birmingham University], Dr Safaruk Zaman Chowdhury[Cambridge Muslim College /Centre for Islamic Knowledge], and Dr Ramon Harvey[Cambridge Muslim College].

Date: Saturday 28th March 2026

Time: 9am - 6pm

Venue: Ebrahim College, 399–401 High Street, Stratford, London, E15 4QZ

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.

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. The first collected volume on the Islamic tradition and analytic epistemology in conversation looks at: Broaches a conversation between Islamic philosophy and theology, and analytic epistemology; Articulates a new subfield of scholarship within philosophy of religion; Discusses a range of significant figures, themes and perspectives within religious and Islamic epistemology. Full contents are as follows:

Introduction: From Islamic Theology to Analytic Philosophy and Afterword: Epistemological Themes Revisited by Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey

Part I. Epistemology outside Kalām: Falsafa, Traditionalism and Sufism

1. A New Look at al-Fārābī on Philosophy versus Theology by Anthony Robert Booth

2. God as an Empirical Entity: The Expanded Scope of Sense Perception in Sunnī Traditionalist Spatialism by Jon Hoover

3. The Tripartite Division of Knowledge and Belief in al-Makkī’s Nourishment of the Hearts by Harith Ramli

Part II. Epistemological Sources in Kalām: Perception, Reason and Testimony

4. How to Know?: Justifying Experience in Classical Kalām by Hannah C. Erlwein

5. Divine Freedom meets Logical Necessity: On the Relationship between Rational Speculation and Knowledge in Classical Ashʿarī Foundationalism by Laura Hassan

6. Mass Transmission of Prophetic Miracles in the Contemplation and Proof of Core Creed by Aaron Spevack

Part III. Comparative Studies in Islamic and Christian Epistemology

7. The Epistemological Status of Causation within al-Ghazālī’s Cosmological Argument in Light of Reid’s Modest Foundationalism by Ayşenur Ünügür-Tabur

8. ‘Is There any Doubt about God?’: Maktab-i Tafkīk’s Religious Epistemology in Comparison with Reformed Epistemology by Amir Mohammad Emami

9. Knowing God Personally: Second-Person Knowledge in Christian and Islamic Analytic Theology by David Worsley

Part IV. Contemporary Debates on the Basicality of Islamic and Christian Belief

10. Fiṭra Foundationalism by Jamie B. Turner

11. Dealing with Defeaters for Warranted Islamic Belief: A Reply to Turner by Erik Baldwin

12. Creation, Sin and Salvation: Essential Categories for a Christian-Theistic Epistemology by K. Scott Oliphint

Part V. Islamic Epistemology Today: Disciplinary, Scriptural and Social Discourses

13. Advice for Muslim Epistemologists by Kelly James Clark

14. Epistemological Foundations of Qur’anic Ethics: Understanding, Wisdom and Righteousness by M. Ashraf Adeel

15. Individualism and Anti-individualism in Islamic Epistemology by John Greco

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About the presenters:

*Professor Anthony Robert Booth is Professor of Ethics & Epistemology at Sussex University. Completed his Ph.D at University of Durham and has worked there, and later at Queen's University Belfast, Utrecht University (NL) and the UNAM in Mexico City. He has worked on projects relating to applied epistemology and ethics, the Trusting Banks project and a collaboration project between Groningen and Cambridge Universities. His research interests include; The Ethics of Belief; Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind; Ethics/Political Philosophy; Applied Philosophy; Islamic Philosophy in particular in de-colonising philosophy, and attempt a non-Orientalist discourse for Islamic Philosophy by treating it as a direct contributor to modern debates (and not just an historical artefact). He is also founding member of the Southern Normativity Group (SoNG).

Dr Aysenur Ünügür-Tabur studied Islamic theology at Ankara University and wrote her master's thesis in the field of philosophy of religion with a focus on religious epistemology. She received a master's scholarship from the Presidency of the Ataturk Cultural Center. She had her in Ph.D. in 2020 at the University of Augsburg, Germany in the department of philosophy with the thesis entitled “God’s Freedom to Choose: The Concept of Divine Free Action in Contrast to Avicenna and Anselm of Canterbury” that critically analyzes the conditions of human and divine freedom in the works of Avicenna and Anselm von Canterbury. During her Ph.D, she was awarded the doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation for three years. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Augsburg on her project “Reconsidering the Metaphysics of Modality and the Modal Ontological Argument” which was funded by the office “Chancengleichheit für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre”. She worked as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Augsburg and Ankara Medipol University. Her research interests lie primarily in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, modal logic and philosophy of mind. Curently, she is a Research Fellow at the Theology and Religion Department at Birmingham University.

*Dr Ramon Harvey is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College. He lectures in Islamic theology. He undertook his postgraduate studies at SOAS, University of London, and also holds an ʿalimiyya qualification. His publications include monographs and articles in both Islamic theology and Qur’anic studies. Currently, his research focuses on kalām in early Māturīdism and on constructive Islamic theology, especially in conversation with Christian theology, analytic philosophy and phenomenology. He is Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology, which is published by Edinburgh University Press.

*Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury is the Academic Director of the Centre for Islamic Knowledge. He read Philosophy at King’s College London, where he also earned the Associate of King’s College (AKC) award. He then travelled to Cairo to study the traditional Islamic Studies curricula at Al-Azhar University. Returning to the UK, he completed his MA with distinction at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His doctoral research, undertaken at SOAS, examined the eminent Sufi hagiographer and theoretician Abu ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (d. 412/1021) and was later published as A Sufi Apologist of Nishapur: The Life and Thought of Abu ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2019). Dr. Chowdhury has authored numerous academic articles in Islamic philosophy and theology, particularly in the areas of ethics, metaphysics, logic, and epistemology. His most recent monograph, Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil (New York and Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press​, 2021), represents the first sustained treatment of the subject in Islamic Studies through the lens of analytic theology. He served as the lead researcher for the Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Theology project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation in collaboration with the Cambridge Muslim College and the Aziz Foundation, which advanced new trajectories in Islamic epistemology. He has previously served as a lecturer at both SOAS and Birkbeck, University of London. In addition to managing the Islamic Analytic Theology website and maintaining an active research profile on Academia.edu, Dr. Chowdhury holds multiple academic and editorial positions. He is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Islamic Philosophy and the Ihya’ Journal of Islamic Thought, a Research Scholar at the Ibn Rushd Centre for Excellence and Research, a Lecturer at the Cambridge Muslim College, a Senior Instructor at the Whitethread Institute, and Chair of the Islamic Literary Society.

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