Ibn Taymiyyah his criticism to the philosophers

AbstractMasters Thesisİbn Taymiyyah His Criticism To The PhilosophersSafinur ECERT.C.UNIVERSTY OF FIRATINSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCESMAIN SCIENCE BRANCH OF SCIENCES OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIONSCIENCEBRANCH OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHYİbn Taymiyyah has an important place in İslamic thought withhis original and cricital approaches. İbn Taymiyyah, whose essentialreference is Quran and Sünnet when critisizing, evaluates the movementswhich are out of these sources as aberrant bidats. In his opinion, Vahdet-ivücud, kalam, philosopy and all superstitious beliefs take away Islam fromits fundementals. He thinks that accepting or refusing the philosopycompletely is not true. Our scholar always takes care about these issues inhis reviews to philosophers. They never agreed on any topic throughouthistory, they continously had conflicts. They played important roles fordteorating the divine religions.They lead the deviations took place on thefundementals of Islam. İbn Taymiyyah, who doesn?t regard the mental andphilosophic proofs used by the philosophers, indicates that Quran not onlycontains belief judgements but also has these judgements mental proofs.Vahiy guides the way and gives the hints about the subjects like tevhid,attributes, prophecy, knowledge. In this study, we will evaluate hisreviews to the philosophers, specially Aristo and his followers Meşşaiphilosophers and try to indicate the reasons beneath his reviews.Key words: İslamic Philosophy, Philosopher, Religion, DogmaticThinking