Knowledge as Viewed by Muslim

  There are three views among Muslim thinkers concerning the nature of knowledge. Fakhr al-Din Razi holds that knowledge is self- evident and notdefinable, while Juwaini and his pupil Ghazzali hold that the concept of knowledge is theoretical and its definition is also too hard. There is another approach by the majority of Muslim theologians and philosophers who maintain that the concept of knowledge is not self-evident but is definable. The author of this article tries to refer to various definitions of knowledge and put emphasize that knowledge as a true justified belief is the end of epistemology. But knowledge in the sense of a pure awareness and representative disengaged existence is the subject matter of epistemology. Key words: knowledge, definition, Muslim thinkers, Self – evident and theoretical.