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Abstract

Self - knowledge and its realation to the knowledge of God is a problem that has occupied the minds of philosophers and gnostics since long ago; as far as we can't find a philosopher or mystic who hasn't talk about it.The present paper has presented different views of Ibn Arabi and Mulla sadra over "the epistemological realation between the soul and Truth" through some titles such as: Form, Perfect man, Defect, Copulative existence,… Furthermore this paper undertake to clarify the stages and the kind of "epistemological realation between the soul and the Truth".

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