Acknowledgements	8
	Contents	10
	Chapter 1: Falsafa as Ethics of Belief	12
	1.1 Knowledge in Islam	13
	1.2 The Ethics of Belief in the West	15
	1.3 The Ethics of Belief in Islamic Philosophy	21
	1.3.1 Im?n vs. Islam	21
	1.3.2 Islamic Evidentialism	23
	1.3.3 Moderate Evidentialism	30
	1.3.4 Islamic Anti-Evidentialism	36
	1.3.5 Moderate Anti-Evidentialism	39
	1.4 Concluding Remarks	44
	Notes	45
	Chapter 2: Certainty and Prophecy	51
	2.1 The Question of the Epistemic Elite	51
	2.2 The Conditions of Certainty	53
	2.3 The Active Intellect and the Prophetic Imagination	60
	2.4 Moderate Evidentialism Versus Moderate Anti-Evidentialism	68
	2.5 Concluding Remarks	71
	Notes	72
	Chapter 3: Prophecy and Politics	75
	3.1 Human Perfection	75
	3.2 The Utopian City-State	84
	3.3 The Imperfect Cities, Democracy and Liberalism	89
	3.4 Conclusion: Towards a Neo-Pyrrhonism?	94
	Notes	96
	References	98
	Arabic Works Cited (Not in Translation)	98
	Arabic Works Cited in English Translation	98
	Secondary Sources	99
	Index	105