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Revelation and reason in Islam

REVELATION AND REASON IN ISLAM

The problem of the relationship between revelation and reason is indeed one of the most famous and pro¬ found topics in the history of human thought.

It is a topic which, though debated without intermission now for some two thousand years, appears not to lose anything of its fascination and freshness, for all the dust overspreading the countless volumes of dead, or seemingly dead metaphysics and theology.

 In choosing as my theme for this course of lectures ‘Revelation and Reason in Islam’ I am all too conscious of the slightness of the contribution to that long debate which it will fall to me to make, in so short a time and upon the basis of knowledge so limited.

If it were possible to institute a full review of this sublime dilemma as it affected and was affected by the Mohammedan faith, that would undoubtedly take us some considerable distance towards understanding and stating the problem as a whole.

The problem as a whole has never yet, so far as I am aware, been anywhere stated; and until the whole problem has been correctly stated, it is obviously vain to look for anything approaching a satisfactory solution, assuming that a satisfactory solution is in any case discoverable.

 It should not be necessary to stress, what is so apparent as to be a truism,