CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE
SERIES IIA, ISLAM, VOLUME 16
General Editor
George F. McLean
ISLAMIC THOUGHT ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD:
Contributions and contrasts with Contemporary Western Philosophy of Religion
by
Cafer S. Yaran
CONTENTS
PREFACE
a. Belief in God in Islamic Thought
b. The Role of Arguments in Belief in God
PART ONE. THE ARGUMENT FROM RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
Chapter I.The Argument from Religious Experience
PART TWO. THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENTSChapter II. The Argument from Wisdom (Óikmah)
Chapter III. The Argument from Providence (‘In
āyeh)Chapter IV. The Argument from Creation (
Ikhtirā’) PART THREE. THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENTSChapter V. The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Chapter VI. The Falsafa Cosmological Argument
Chapter VII. The Disputed Position of the Ontological Argument
CONCLUSION