Reorganization of the Epistemic Network of Religion and Reason in the Tradition of Islamic Philosophy Based on the Dynamic Model

This research examines the epistemic structure of religion in the tradition of Islamic philosophy, demonstrating that Muslim philosophers’ use of religion is not as a static and homogeneous source but rather in variable relations with reason and intuition. Such a relationship sometimes leads to functional dispersion and epistemic heterogeneity in the works of Muslim philosophers, to the point where identifying a "stable epistemic core" for religion becomes a complex and ambiguous issue. To resolve this ambiguity, this paper proposes a model called "Epistemic Dynamics," which conceptualizes religion not as a closed epistemic system but as a dynamic process in continuous interaction with rational faculties and intuitive experience. This model, by providing a systematic framework, is capable of explaining both the historical differences and diversity in philosophers' interpretations of religion and also facilitates the reconstruction of a kind of epistemic coherence within Islamic philosophy. In this way, the "Epistemic Dynamics" approach offers a new perspective, enabling the overcoming of long-standing tensions and challenges between reason and religion, and shows that the epistemic structure of religion in the tradition of Islamic philosophy should be recognized as a dynamic and dialectical process, in continuous synergy and interaction with reason and intuitive experience.