Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Hossein Shoorvazi ¹
• Mohammad Sa’idi Mehr ²
• Azam Qasemi ³
• Reza Maahoozi ⁴

¹ PhD student in Philosophy of Religion, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

² Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tarbiat Modares University

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Theology and Philosophy of Religion, Institute of Humanities

⁴ Associate Professor, Institute of Social Studies

Abstract

The issue of the nature of God's knowledge is one of the problems that have long been caused by the minds of thinkers and intellectuals. In the philosophy of contemporary religion, William Alston deals with the nature of God's science. Is it possible to say that God's science is the same as honest belief? In Islamic philosophy, science is divided into two categories: the science of presence and acquired knowledge. What is the wisdom of God in the two things? Attractive science or presence? In this article, after expressing the theory of Alston and Sheikh Ishraq on the knowledge of God, we consider the theory that these two thinkers have somewhat a common view of the science of God after creation. Alstoun's direct intuition theory and the addition of Ishroikah Suhrawardi are two interpretations of one view. Alston's direct intuition theory means that God directly watts the world and therefore has that science.
In this paper, it has been attempted to examine the views of these two thinkers on the nature of God's science by examining the views of William Alston and Sheikh Ishraq, and explain their differences and similarities in this regard.

Keywords

• science
• Belief
• Direct Intuition
• Illumination
• Isolation