Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Qurʾanic Miracle Stories: A Puzzling Motif?
Part 1 A Medieval Muslim Debate
1 In Defense of a Literal Reading of Miracles: Ghazali’s Case for Contingency and Grace
2 A Cautious Approach to Miracle Stories: Ibn Rushd’s Case for Rationalism and Divine Wisdom
Part 2 Reframing the Debate on Miracles in Modern Terms
3 David Hume on Empiricism, Common Sense, and Miracles
4 Charles S. Peirce on Pragmatism, Science, and Miracles
Part 3 Contemporary Connections
5 Said Nursi’s Contemporary Reading of Qurʾanic Miracle Stories
Conclusion: Qurʾanic Hermeneutics in the Modern Age
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Isra Yazicioglu is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Joseph’s University.
“A significant contribution to our understanding of how and what
scriptures signify.”—David L. Weddle Journal of Qurʾanic
Studies
“Yazicioglu’s monograph should and will be taken, in the years to
come, as a reference point hard to be ignored in the interreligious
and intercultural debate over the reconciliation of faith and
science.”—Stefano Bigliardi Social Epistemology Review and Reply
Collective
“An intriguing study not only of the Qurʾan but also of the
reception history of the sacred text in light of the challenge of
rationalism. Isra Yazicioglu's work serves as a useful reminder of
how intellectual trends in each era have shaped our interaction
with divine revelation in a way that is timeless—and also
timely.”—Omid Safi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“An important book that brings miracle stories from Islam into
conversation with philosophy. Isra Yazicioglu takes us on a journey
through Ghazali’s defense of miracle stories—and she reframes those
stories in terms of modern philosophy, beginning with Hume,
developing with Peirce (who reminds us that natural laws are not
absolute but who nevertheless recognizes regularities in nature),
and ending with Nursi (for whom miracles invite us to rethink our
assumptions about natural causation).”—Gavin Flood, University of
Oxford
“A lucidly written volume from which students of philosophy and
theology as well as the informed general reader can
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“A most worthy and timely project, deftly executed and providing a
valuable resource to anyone interested in how a range of
philosophers, mediaeval and modern, have approached the
miraculous.”—Damian Howard S.J. Islam and Christian-Muslim
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