A Deliberative Account of Philosophy as Wisdomin al-Farabi’s Treatise al- Jam’ Beyne Ra’yy Al-Hakimayn

Although al-Farabi’s treatise al- Jam’ Beyne Ra’yy Al-Hakimayn, affirms that the scope of the subject matter of philosophy encompasses all beings, and this is, in fact, an affirmation of the Greco-Aristotelian nature of philosophy, from the attributes and descriptors he counts for philosophy it can be inferred that, in this treatise, he had the Quranic concept of wisdom in his mind for the term philosophy. The present paper argues that al-Farabi views the nature of philosophy as the knowledge of all beings, meanwhile the way he has depicted the identity of this knowledge reminds us of the religious concept of wisdom in the Muslim’s holy scripture. In a broader sense, the identity of philosophy, asdepicted in this treatise, has a Greco-Aristotelian nature with a religious identity characterized with Qur'anic terms such as persuasiveness, non-difference, lack of inconsistency in its rulings and conformity with the actual text as expressed by divine men to be received and emulated.