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Truth, Philosophers, and Prophets: a Critical Study of Isaac Albalag's Sefer Tiqqun ha-Deʿot
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This book focuses on Isaac Albalag’s perspective on the relationship between religion and philosophy. In
Sefer Tiqqun ha-Deʿot, a Hebrew translation with a commentary of al-Ġazālī’s Arabic philosophical encyclopedia
Maqāṣid al-Falāsifah, 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
Maqāṣid, 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.
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).
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
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
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
The book is of interest to academics interested in Jewish philosophy, in particular post-Maimonidean thought, and Islamic philosophy, in particular the thought of Avicenna, al-Ghazali, and Averroes.