The Impact of Shihaboddin Yahya Sohrawardi on Nasiroddin Tusi’s Theory of God’s Knowledge to the World

The present paper compares Nasiroddin Tusi’s theory of
God’s knowledge to the world with that of Shihaboddin Yahya
Sohrawardi’s being concerned with the impact of the former on
the latter in the doctrine which caused the peripatetic theosopher
to appear in this theory, neither as a theologian, nor a peripatetic
philosopher, but as an ‘illuminative theosopher’ who accepts
explicitly ‘God’s knowledge by presence to the world’, in spite
of the peripatetic philosophers’ opinion. It states Tusi’s critiques
the peripatetic philosophers’ theory of knowledge and his special
doctrine in this regard, comparing them with Sohrawardi’s
critiques on their theory and his specific doctrine in that regard
in order to making clear that to what extent Tusi has been under
the influence of Sohrawardi in both parts separately, and to what
extent the former’s expressions and reasons can be adapted to
those of the latter. As a result, Sohrawardi seems to be more
important in the theory of knowledge than Tusi.