Truth, Philosophers, and Prophets

a Critical Study of Isaac Albalag's Sefer Tiqqun ha-Deʿot
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-67946-7
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion

This book focuses on Isaac Albalag’s perspective on the relationship between religion and philosophy. In Sefer Tiqqun ha-De'ot, a Hebrew translation with a commentary of al-Gazali’s Arabic philosophical encyclopedia Maqasid al-Falasifah, Albalag indicates his adherence to what is known in scholarship as the double-truth doctrine. By analysing the Tiqqun against its philosophical background and its critical engagement with the Maqasid, this book demonstrates Albalag’s unyielding commitment to Aristotelianism, as known to him through Averroes’s lens, concluding that his apparent embrace of the double-truth doctrine is merely a strategic tool to carve out a distinct space for philosophy, independent of religious beliefs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abdalla, Bakinaz

Abdalla, Bakinaz Khalifa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

2 The Concept of emunah

3 Conclusion

2 The Theory of Prophecy: Naturalism or Supernaturalism?

1 Prophets and Miracles

2 Prophets and Separate Intellects: Two Fundamental Claims

3 Non-empirical Source(s) of Knowledge

4 Prophets and the Divine Capacity

5 The Imaginative Faculty: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle

6 Conclusion

3 Law, Society, and Happiness

1 The moreh tzedeq: A Political Leader or a Prophet?

2 Torah and Divine Will

3 Torah and Happiness

4 Conclusion

Part2 Questions in Celestial Physics and Metaphysics

4 The Conception of God

1 Proofs of God’s Existence: Methods and Implications

2 The Prime Mover and the Deity

3 Divine Knowledge

4 Divine Will

5 Conclusion

5 Creation, Eternal Creation, or Eternity?

1 Arguments for the Eternity of the World

2 The Doctrine of Eternal Creation

3 Divine Causation and Celestial Motion

4 Divine Knowledge and Coming to Be

5 The Metaphor of the River: Existence in the Sublunary World

6 Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bakinaz Khalifa Abdalla, Ph.D. (2019), McGill University, is Assistant Professor of philosophy at Nazarbayev University. Her publications include a special issue of Religious Studies on the problem of evil and suffering and a number of book chapters and journal articles. Her most recent publications are "Evil and Responsibility in the Quran" in Religious Studies (2024), and "Morality and Divine Law: Reflections on Islamic Theology and Falsafah" in Global Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Saleh Zarepour and Yujin Nagasawa (2024).