Classic Issues in Islamic Philosophy and Theology Today

This collection of studies in classic issues of Islamic theology and philosophy, authored primarily by young Islamic scholars, is directed to Islamic and Occidental readers alike. While the questions here explored are classic, these studies are definitely

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Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue

VOLUME 4 Founder and Editor: A NNA -T ERESA T YMIENIECKA, The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Hanover, USA Co-Editors: Gholam Reza A’avani, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Center, Teheran, Iran Nader El-Bizri, University of Cambridge, UK

Editorial Board: Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghghegh Damad Ahmad Abadi, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, Tehran, Iran Mehdi Aminrazavi, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, USA Roza Davari Ardakani, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, Tehran, Iran Angela Ales Bello, Centro Italiano di Fenomenologia, Rome, Italy William Chittick, SUNY, Stony Brook, USA Ibrahim Dinani, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, Tehran, Iran Lenn E. Goodman, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA Hassan Hanafi, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt James G. Hart, Indiana University, Indiana, USA Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei, Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, Tehran, Iran Walter Lammi, The American University in Cairo, Egypt Robert D. Sweeney, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Classic Issues in Islamic Philosophy and Theology Today

Edited by

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Hanover, NH, USA

and

Nazif Muhtaroglu University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

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Editors Prof. A-T. Tymieniecka The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning 1 Ivy Pointe Way Hanover NH 03755 USA [email protected]

Nazif Muhtaroglu University of Kentucky Dept. Philosophy 1415 Patterson Office Tower Lexington KY 40506-0027 USA

ISBN 978-90-481-3572-1 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3573-8 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3573-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009938170 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S

PREFACE

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ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA / Introduction: Toward the New Enlightenment

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SECTION I ABBAS YAZDANI / An Internalist Model of Immediate Awareness of God From an Islamic Philosophy Perspective

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ERIK BALDWIN / On the Prospects of an Islamic Externalist Account of Warrant

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SECTION II NAZIF MUHTAROGLU / An Occasionalist Defence of Free Will

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SETH CORWIN VANNATTA / Revelation and Reason: Ibn ‘Arabi’s Sufism and G.W. Leibniz’s Idealism

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MUHAMMAD SHABBIR AHSEN / Iqbal on Self and Privacy: A Critical Analysis in the Light of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

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SECTION III CHRYSSI SIDIROPOUL