The theme of the EAR annual conference “Religion from the Inside” gives us the opportunity to open a panel on the notion of Islamic knowledge from the inside. Grounded in an emic perspective on knowledge origins, constructions, functions and receptions, and a decolonial approach aiming to reclaim, reinvestigate and develop alternatives to the dominant secular liberal episteme, the participants to the panel engage with the characteristic features, functions and visions of knowledge in Islam. These include (but are not restricted to) the complementarity between heart and reason, orality and script, the question of disciplinary interactions and holism, of contextual attachments and relevance, and the manifold genres and styles where knowledge may be enshrined, discussed, developed and contested.Chair: Claire Gallien (Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen)Speakers:Yaseen Christian Andrewsen (University of Oxford), Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1226/1811) on Dhawq and the Hierarchy of KnowledgeFadila Ezzat (École Pratique des Hautes Études), The Sufi Origins for the « Islamization of Knowledge » ProjectClaire Gallien (Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen), What is a “Religious” Science? Reflections on the Categories of ‘Ulūm Shar‘ī / Ghayr Shar’ī in Early-Modern Classification of the Sciences LiteratureAhmed Tahir Nur (Yale University), Divine Visions, Human Divisions: Navigating the Territory of Knowledge in Tashkoprizade’s (d. 968/1561) Encyclopedia of the SciencesIrfan A. Omar (Marquette University), Contested Visions of Holiness : Sufism from the InsideEasa Saad (University of Oxford), Theology as poetry: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s Mas̄navī-yi Maʿnavi