Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi İslam Tetkikleri Merkezi Dergisi

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The nature and origin of knowledge, and the problem of truth

are of perennial problems of philosophy. In Islamic philosophy

the epistemologic inquiry primarily concerns perception and the

threeway relationship between the percept , the perceived object,

and perception. The Meşşai (Peripatetic) account of knowledge as

the “illustration” of the reality of the perceived object in the soul,

or the presence of its essence in the soul, lead the confusion of

categories between substence and accident. Thus in response other

theories of knowledge were posited such as knowledge as the

quality by correlation, knowledge as imaging of forms, and knowledge

as the inherence of the quiddities of the perceived object

in the soul. In the Islamic world, it can be spoken of a series of

thinkers who were interested in the subject directly as well as indirectly.

Among them whose names may be mentioned are Fârâbî,

İbn Sînâ, Sühreverdi, F. Razi, Nasır, Recep Ali Tebrizi.

Of these thinkers, philosophical or theological or both, we personally

interested in especially in Nasır Tûsî, Ali Tûsî, Erdebili,

Devvânî, Kemal Paşazâde, and İsmail Gelenbevi.