Journal of Zaytuna College Spring 2017 9770025723574 What's Real and What Is Not: How Metaphysics Can Help Us Understand the Nature of Reality Contents Letter from the Editor: Hamza Yusuf Can Our Science and Economics Honor Nature? Waleed El-Ansary Our insatiable desire to view nature as a material resource can only be repelled by acknowledging immaterial reality. Do Reason and Revelation Guide Us to the Same Good? Robert P. George For Jews, Christians, and Muslims, confidence in what reason discloses as moral precepts is enriched by God’s act of revealing to us what He requires us. Can Materialism Explain the Mind? Faraz Khan Some philosophers believe materialism has now reached an insurmountable quandary in the question of consciousness. Beware of What Comes Within From Without Mark Damien Delp Does habitual exposure to digital images destroy the stillness of heart required for seeing God within our soul? Orientalists, Militants, and the Meanings of Jihad Asma Afsaruddin How widespread misuse of the term “jihad” creates confusion and misunderstanding about a core concept in Islam. The Great Chain of Consciousness Mohammed Rustom Why did many Muslim metaphysicians see the universe and all of its contents as alive? Al-Ghazali on Cause and Effect Eiyad al-Kutubi In his discussion on causality, did Imam al-Ghazali succeed in safeguarding miracles as well as certainty about the world? When A Metaphor Becomes Matter for a Christian Scott F. Crider Can we use poetics to understand scripture? Is the Matter of Metaphysics Immaterial? Yes and No Hamza Yusuf During the “Golden Age of Islam”, philosophy was at the heart of the Muslim intellectual tradition. Its decline coincided with the decline of Islam. Is that a coincidence? Hamlet’s Soliloquy Charles Upton Hamlet’s downfall did not arise out of a wrong answer to the question he posed, but out of the arrogation to himself of the right to determine his own existence or annihilation.
