Tawātur in Islamic Thought Transmission, Certitude and Orthodoxy

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Suheil I. Laher, "Tawātur in Islamic Thought: Transmission, Certitude and Orthodoxy "
English | ISBN: 1399510819 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Tawātur is the concept that information yields certainty if acquired through a sufficient number of independent channels. Tawātur in Islamic Thought is an attempt to unravel the twisted historical threads of the conception and usage of tawātur across diverse Islamic disciplines, in light of both Western academia and debates within Muslim scholarship.

In the process, numerous salient questions in Islamic thought are tackled, such as epistemic certitude, scholarly consensus (ijmāʿ), and the rationalism-traditionalism relationship. The study culminates in the question of the extent to which tawātur was used by Muslim scholars to define the boundaries of Islam and of orthodoxy.
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