God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason

PART I:
1. Is Islam anti-rational?
2. what do we mean by raeson?
(1)Tge definition of reaon and rationality
(2) Western conception of reason, 18
i. Logos and rationality among the Greeks, 18
ii. Scholasticism: Reason as the tool of theology
iii. Englifhtenment reason
iv. Scientific reason
v. Utilitarian reason and practical rationality
vi. relativism
vii. [these two classified as antirationalist movements]
Protestant textualism

viii. Romanticism
(3) The civil war of reason in the West, 25
-gives "a sampling of four of the most important intellectual
conflicts between rival conceptions of reason and nonreason...":
i. scholasticims vs Protestant textualism
ii. science vs religion
iii. relativism vs Utilitarianism and Protestant textualism
iv. the rights of man vs the rights of the community

(4) Islam and Western conceptions of reason, 27

3. Empirical Knowledge of the Mind of God, 30

(1) The Enterprise of Hadith Collection, 32
(2) The Intellectual World of the Hadith Scholars, 38
i. The Authority of the Hadith
ii.Classification as Codification, 43
(3) The Historical Priority of Fiqh to Hadith, 46
(4) Literalist Challenge and Rational Cooption, 50

4. THE FAILURE OF THE FARABIAN SYNTHESIS OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY, 55

(1) Philosophy and Religion before Islam
i. Philosophers and Revealed Riligion, 62
ii. The Decline of Greek Political Philosophy
(2) The FIrst ENcounter of Islam with Philosophy: From the Syrians to
Kindi, 64
(3) Farabi's Philosophy of Religion, 67
i. Religion SUbsumed within Philosophy, 74
ii/ God as Intellect adn the Intelligibility of God
iii. Prophecy as a Mater of Pscyhology, 78
iv. The Symbolic Interpretation of Scripture, 80
v. The Role of Fiqh and Kalam

(4) The Failur of the Farabian Political Philosophy of Religion, 82

5. MYSTICISM, POSTCLASSICAL ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY, AND THE THE RISE AND FALL OF
ISLAMIC SCIENCE, 86
(1) The Emergence of Mysticism
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