An Introduction on Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy

This paper is from Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy in which writer especially discusses on some important virtues of Islamic Epistemology. She first cites to Muslim philosophers about the possibility of knowledge then defines it to perception of immaterial form or universals. She indicates that paying attention to the subject of knowledge between Muslim philosophers is in the light of their interest to acquire man's Happiness. They in their epistemological discussions notice to the properties of Idea and Judgment, Argument and Illumination, some virtues like subject and predicate, universality and individuality, accidental and essential, and also they concentrate on the role of Mind or Reason meanwhile it can be said believing to prophecy knowledge is one of prominent virtue of Islamic Philosophy. Writer in this paper notes to the views of Ibn Sina, Ibn Bajja, Ibn Rushdm Farabi and Ibn Tufail, and did not consider another Muslim philosophers like Mulla sadra And Suhravardi's viewpoints.