Epistemology
Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Rudolph T. Ware III published “The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa” in 2014, with the University of North Carolina Press. Am arriving at the text late, after having it in my “too read” pile for too long. A few notes: “We must see beyond race and put Africans back […]
Tags: #Embodied knowledge #Epistemology #Islam #Islamic education #West Africa
Classifications of Knowledge
Looking to explore different epistemic and ontological vantage points? One option is Osman Bakar’s “Classification of Knowledge in Islam – A Study in Islamic Philosophies of Science” published by the Islamic Texts Society in 1998 (first published by the Institute for Policy Research in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1992). The book examines classifications (different types; […]
Tags: #Classification of knowledge #Epistemology #Islam #Ontology #Philosophy
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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