خلاصه ماشینی:
The revival of Islamic philosophical thinking is necessary for the purpose of critically reviewing Muslim understanding of Islam and its continued relevance to the evolving order of human existence.
The search for Islamic knowledges, be they science, philosophy, epistemology, or social sciences, seems to suggest that values are prior to knowledge and that identity implicates epistemology.
Until these issues are settled in a meaningful sense, efforts toward advancing knowledge based on claims of Islamic particularities, whether at the level of epistemology or at the level of applied sciences, will remain problematic.
7 Knowledge by Presence Mehdi Y azdi's book, The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence, is an important work and in many ways a significant milestone in the contemporary history of Islamic philosophical thought 8 It has been a long time since any Islamic philosopher has taken up a project of this magnitude.
The book is addressing Western philosophy with the purpose of gaining acceptance for mystical experience as a philosophical knowledge.
The book has little to say about the condition of knowledge, epistemology, or philosophy in Islam or the present Muslim world ..
Sadly, one is compelled to reach a harsh conclusion that this book is not about Islamic epistemology; it is more like an intellectual justification by mysticism for inclusion under the label philosophy.
Mehdi Ha'iri Yazdi, The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992).