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.

Keywords: Relation of reason and religion, Islamic philosophy, epistemic dynamics, belief revision, epistemic coherence

     

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