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The purpose of this chapter is to argue that we human beings can have immediate and direct awareness of God through knowledge by presence. This sort of immediate and direct knowledge can provide justification for belief in God. I shall show how knowledge by presence works in this regard, and how important the role of knowledge by presence is in a religious epistemology. I shall offer an internalist model of immediate knowledge of God through knowledge by presence from an Islamic philosophy perspective. Then I shall deal with some important criticisms of the possibility of this sort of immediate knowledge of God.
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Yazdani, A. (2010). An Internalist Model of Immediate Awareness of God From an Islamic Philosophy Perspective. In: Tymieniecka, AT., Muhtaroglu, N. (eds) Classic Issues in Islamic Philosophy and Theology Today. Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3573-8_1
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