How To Think About Belief In God - Lecture 06 - Islamic Mysticism

This course aims to introduce students of philosophy, theology, and Islam more generally, to a contemporary philosophical overview of religious epistemology in the context of thinking about the Islamic theistic tradition. It does so by providing an accessible gateway into the philosophical discipline of epistemology in general and religious epistemology in particular. By drawing on key concepts within contemporary epistemology, the course aims to guide students through thinking about important epistemological ideas that relate to Islamic theistic belief.
Lecture 5: Islamic Mysticism
00:02:35 What is Islamic Mysticism?
00:04:55 Two Kinds of Knowing
00:07:55 Ibn Arabi's Theory of Ilm
00:14:05 Ibn Arabi's Theory of Marifa
00:19:25 The Limits of Reason
00:28:05 Faith and Praxis
00:33:55 The Station/States of the Knower
00:45:45 Islamic Mystical Fideism
00:48:16 Three Problems for Mystics
00:52:16 Q/A
Guest
Jamie B. Turner is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Religion, University of Birmingham. His doctoral research focuses on the medieval Muslim theologian Ibn Taymiyya and his model of natural theology. Jamie’s broader interests are in the philosophy of religion, religious epistemology, and Islamic theology. He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters including, “An Islamic Account of Reformed Epistemology” (2021), “Ibn Taymiyya on theistic signs and knowledge of God” (2021), and “Islamic Religious Epistemology” (with Enis Doko) in the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology (2023).
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