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 emunah3 Conclusion2 The Theory of Prophecy: Naturalism or Supernaturalism?1 Prophets and Miracles2 Prophets and Separate Intellects: Two Fundamental Claims3 Non-empirical Source(s) of Knowledge4 Prophets and the Divine Capacity5 The Imaginative Faculty: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle6 Conclusion3 Law, Society, and Happiness1 The moreh tzedeq: A Political Leader or a Prophet?2 Torah and Divine Will3 Torah and Happiness4 ConclusionPart2 Questions in Celestial Physics and Metaphysics4 The Conception of God1 Proofs of God’s Existence: Methods and Implications2 The Prime Mover and the Deity3 Divine Knowledge4 Divine Will5 Conclusion5 Creation, Eternal Creation, or Eternity?1 Arguments for the Eternity of the World2 The Doctrine of Eternal Creation3 Divine Causation and Celestial Motion4 Divine Knowledge and Coming to Be5 The Metaphor of the River: Existence in the Sublunary World6 ConclusionConclusionBibliographyIndex