Islamic Insights on Religious Disagreement

A New Proposal

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ID3399609
AutoresJamie B Turner (0000-0001-8304-0101, University of Birmingham, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume15
Fascículo5
Páginas574
Data de publicação2024-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel15050574
OpenAlexW4396562144
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas45

In this article, I consider how the epistemic problem of religious disagreement has been viewed within the Islamic tradition. Specifically, I consider two religious epistemological trends within the tradition: Islamic Rationalism and Islamic Traditionalism. In examining the approaches of both trends toward addressing the epistemic problem, I suggest that neither is wholly adequate. Nonetheless, I argue that both approaches offer insights that might be relevant to building a more adequate response. So, I attempt to combine insights from both by drawing a distinction between inferential and noninferential reflective responsibility. Given this distinction, I argue that it may be possible for a theist to remain steadfast in upholding their tradition-specific theistic belief, without having to hold that belief by way of inference; but nevertheless, having to be sufficiently reflectively responsible in forming their theistic belief noninferentially

Epistemology · Islam · Political science · Theology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Islamic Thought and Society Studies · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy