Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Islam and Rationalism

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• about this book
• Foreword
• PART I
• Chapter One: Islam proclaims reason
• CHAPTER TWO: between the mind and sacred texts
• European and ecclesiastical heritage
• Reason and mind in the Islamic thought
• Islamic thought and philosophy
• Between the texts of Hadith and the sources
• Between imitation and Ijtihad
• Domains of specialization
• CHAPTER THREE: The influence of the heart on the mind
• PART II: THE COMPONENTS OF ISLAMIC RATIONALISM
• Chapter Four: the first component: thinking as the way of FAITH
• a) The call for thinking
• b) Doubt is a transitional phase toward certainty
• c) Prophets as teachers
• d) The creation as a proof of the existence of the Creator
• Notes