Metaphysical Investigations

Suhrawardi and Allamah Tabatabaei are as two famous philosophers of Islam that have introduced some new philosophical theories and are fundamentalist in epistemology. Although none of them have not used the term fundamentalism, but inference of their philosophical contexts indicates fundamentalism as a philosophical subject matter for them. In this paper, it is tried to discuss on their viewpoints of fundamentalism and similarities or differences between them. The aim of the research is to explain the process of growth of epistemology in Islamic philosophy. These two philosophers, are selected as two criteria Suhrawardi as a sample after peripatetic philosophy as a philosopher who introduced new theories, and Tabatabaei as the first Muslim contemporary philosopher who propounded epistemology as independent philosophical subject. Hence, it is clear that comparison of their thought in epistemology shows a kind of rationalization and progress in epistemology among Islamic philosophers.

In this research, we try only to concentrate on their fundamentalism and discuss on self-evident concepts and Presential Knowledge, in order to clarify their epistemological aspects from Suhravardi and Tabatabaei’s fundamentalist philosophy.