Details: Islam Answers Atheism

Islam Answers Atheism – Description

This unique work is a result of multiple engagements and debates in universities, mosques, private gatherings and elsewhere. The author, Asrar Rashid, takes on the more difficult questions taking us through a labrynth of Kalām, philosophy, logic, epistemology, science, the Qurʾān, Ḥadīth and Sharīʿa. The book covers in depth the proof for God, His divine attributes, the problem of evil, freewill and divine knowledge, the most difficult philosophical and scientific objections against Islam, as well as objections to Sharīʿa law, the Qurʾān’s historical preservation, the historicity of the Ḥadīth, slavery, Jihād, women’s rights and a host of other complex issues. This book is a must for all who are learning about Islam, Muslims and non-Muslims, apologists and detractors.

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Excellently written and brilliantly dismantles the sophistry, chutzpah not to mention the absurdity of the modern day atheist using rational arguments and Ash’ari theology. Easily accessible chapters make it a great work readily on hand to answer the critics of Islam on the oft-quoted so called ‘objections’ parroted today e.g. jihad, slavery, women in Islam, concept of evil and God etc. May God reward the author and publishing team immensely.

Table of contents

Chapter One – Islam & Atheism

1. How can Islam answer Atheism
2. The Prime Importance of Kalam
3. The Categories of Belief
4. Degrees of Proof
5. Blind Conformity
6. The Intuitive Mind of the Pious Predessors [salaf]
7. The Mind & the Intelect
8. Religious Hypocrisy
9. Salvation through Kalam
10. The Emergence of Dispute
11. The Mu’tazila
12. The Modern Era
13. Fifteen Atheistic Fallacies

Chapter Two – Epistemology

1. The Meaning & Importance of Epistemology
2. Does Knowledge itself need defining?
3. Judgements
4. Empirical Judgements
5. Rational Judgements
6. Categorisation of Empirical & Rational Judgements
7. Certainty & Types of Proofs
8. Proofs that impart Certainty
9. Disputation based on Famous Assumption or Fallacies
10. Oratory based on Accepted Names
11. Poetic Licence
12. Sophistry
13. Love is a Fallacy
14. The Importance of Common Sense / Method of Signification
15. Anglo-European Philosophy & its Epistemology

Chapter Three – God’s Effect

1. Cause & Effect
2. The Sceptical Fetters of David Hume
3. Russell’s Teapot
4. Reasoning from Effect to Cause that God certainly Exists
5. Seven Principles
6. The Summary of Proof for these Seven Principles
7. The Proof by way of Tallying or Application
8. Cantor’s Set Theory
9. Circular Reasoning & Continuous Regression
10. What the Cause of the Universe entails
11. A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Krauss
12. Afterthoughts & Various Considerations
13. Ockham’s Razor
14. The Principle of Sufficient Reason
15. The Fallacy of Composition
16. A Caused Universe & the Casual Principle
17. The Anthropic Principle & the Teleological Argument
18. God of the Gaps
19. Alien of the Gaps
20. The Names & Attributes of Allah

Chapter Four – On Evil, Theodicy & Philosophical Sundries

1. The Problem of Evil & Suffering
2. What Stephen Fry said
3. The Connections of the Attributes of God
4. The Boulder Question
5. Satan’s Tricky Question
6. Divine Knowledge
7. The Necessary & the Essential
8. On Human Freewill
9. The Legally Responsible
10. Unbelievers
11. The Outward Muslim & the Outward Kafir
12. Divine Will & Human Freewill
13. The Meaning of ‘God Willing’
14. The Meaning of ‘God guides / misguides whom He wills’
15. Prophetic Reports on Freewill
16. Sin & Freewill
17. The Danger of Religious Arrogance
18. Why does God need our Worship?
19. The Purpose of Human Life
20. The Man who worshipped for Five Hundred Years
21. A Thought Experiment
22. Why does God burn the Unbelievers in Hell for Eternity?
23. The Punishment in Hell
24. Euthyphro’s Dilemma
25. The Drowning Man
26. God’s Law
27. An Imperfect World
28. What is the Wisdom of God creating Evil?

Chapter Five – Islam & Science

1. The Clash of Modern Science
2. The Subject of Science
3. Miracles
4. The Metaphysical Domain
5. The Buraq
6. The Splitting of the Moon
7. Claims of Scientific Error in the Qur’an
8. The Qur’an is not a Book of Science
9. Claims of Scientific Error in Prophetic Reports
10. Forgeries & Islam
11. Eschatology in Islam
12. The Illusion of Scientific Dogmatism
13. Paradigm Shifts in Scientific Theories
14. Evolution / Intelligent Design & Islam

Chapter Six – The Qur’an, Hadith & Shari’a

1. Islam
2. The Preservation of the Qur’an
3. The Preservation of Hadith & Sunna
4. Classification of Hadith
5. Shari’a Law
6. Jihad
7. Slavery
8. Corporal Punishment
9. Capital Punishment for Apostates
10. Homosexuality & Islam
11. The Marriage of Lady ‘A’isha
12. Polygamy
13. The Hijab
14. Woman like a Rib Hadith
15. Maidens for Men, what about Women?
16. Women & Inheritance Laws
17. Blood Money of a Woman [diya]
18. Divorce Laws
19. Wife Beating
20. Woman’s Intellect & Leadership

Notes & References
Glossary
Bibliography

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