Truth, Philosophers, and Prophets: a Critical Study of Isaac Albalag's Sefer Tiqqun ha-Deʿot

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



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



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