An Analytical-Critical Approach to Historical Itinerary of Criticism of Skepticism from Ibn Sina to Mulla Sadra

Abstract

Surveying some Muslim philosophers' thoughts (from Ibn Sina to Mulla Sadra), this article attempts to indicated remarkable role of Islamic philosophy in intellectual confrontation with skepticism and expounds how much this tradition has been capable of enriching and deepening that discussion. This paper will also shows Ibn Sina's pattern of proving possibility of knowledge and negating skepticism. Mulla Sadra who considered has been influenced by Ibn Sina, al-Razi, and Suhrawardi, in critizising of skepticism, he has dealt with this in his two works of Hashīyāt Elāhiyyāt al-Shifā' and al-Asfār al-Arbā‘a.