Islamic tradition is a rational project with internally consistent logic

Evidence

The first task in the study of Islam (and for that matter all other major traditions of inquiry) is to treat it as a rational project, however much (or precisely because) its rationality differs from the thinking to which the modern mind has grown accustomed. Once the internal logic of this tradition is unraveled, the project would make as much heuristic sense as any other … The cosmos, for him, is a divine order, a Quranic and cherished Islamic concept par excellence. Because the ordo amoris exhibits the moral character of the cosmos, humankind is intimately connected to the world in every way they are able to love. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 484

Categorization

• XREF: Scheler’s ordo amoris and the ethical cosmos echo themes in religious-ethics literature already curated. — connects to: Islamic empires hosted thriving traditions of rationalist and skeptical thought — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 341; Islam as tradition resists both fixed-structure and belief-collection definitions