The New Interpretation of al-Hakīm al-Tirmidhī's Kitāb al-Furūq

Kitab al-Furūq by al_Hakīm al-Tirmidhī (ca. 230-320 AH) is comprising the spiritual norms and moral values of Islamic Sufism with psycho analysis of Human nature. The book approach has made it significant in the history of Psycho analysis in Islamic Civilization. Although, almost all traditional and modern scholars disscussed the book, they were not familiar with it and introduced it as an structureless encyclopedia containing twofold controversial words, to be like the author's another work: Tahsīl Nazāir al-Qur'ān. This study aimed to criticize this presupposition. we are going to survey the book by different methods of content analysis to find out author's real aim in compilation such a book. Without naming any group, it seems that al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi divided people into three different types: ordinary people, ordinary clergy men, and high rank clergy men, the typology he mentions in his another books by terms like al-‘amma, al-Khawāṣ, and Khāṣ al-Khawāṣ.