In recent years, there has been notable interest in Islamic philosophy and theology from an analytic and not merely historical perspective. One important area of research that has garnered a great deal of research is the arguments for the existence of God. Recent work by Hannah Erlwein seeks to argue that this research has been in vain, for there are no arguments for the existence of God in classical Islamic thought. This paper analyzes Erlwein’s strategies in justifying this position, revealing that her research ignores an enormous amount of evidence that runs contrary to her thesis, in addition to demonstrating many of the errors and shortcomings in her work. Most disturbingly, the book seeks to present the Islamic philosophical tradition as fideistic and unintellectual based on a series of contrived interpretations of rather clear texts. In response, this paper demonstrates the importance of independent inquiry in the Islamic tradition by looking at a wide range of different relevant texts.

近年来，从分析的角度而不仅仅是历史的角度，人们对伊斯兰哲学和神学表现出了浓厚的兴趣。关于神的存在的论据是获得大量研究的重要研究领域之一。汉娜·埃尔文（Hannah Erlwein）的最新著作试图证明这项研究是徒劳的，因为在古典伊斯兰思想中没有关于上帝存在的争论。本文分析了埃尔文在证明这一立场上的策略，发现她的研究除了证明了她工作中的许多错误和不足之外，还忽略了与她的论文背道而驰的大量证据。最令人不安的是，这本书试图基于对清晰文本的一系列人为解释，将伊斯兰哲学传统呈现为信仰主义和非智力主义。