The geometry of Fakhr Al-Din Razi's Religious Knowledge

Fakhr Al-Din Razi in his early scientific life has supported hardly the role of reason in the religious studies, but later he has limited his idea on applying of reason in theology and considered the transmitted sciences and intuition the most effective in religious understanding. Moreover, according to his opinion, proof, Quran and Mysticism and on the other words, faithfulness and Wisdom can be integrated. He has also admitted that the transmitted sciences and intuition are the best way to understand the religious issues. Accordingly, rational understanding of the religion is necessary and one of the most important functions of reason is to elucidate religious beliefs and resolve the oppositions and contradictions in the religious claims. Razi has only admired and praised reason and wisdom for this function. This research, by descriptive-analytic method and critical approach is going to draw the geometry of Razi’s religious knowledge, studying his point of view about the position of each side of the geometric shape and how they affecting each other. Finally, it concludes that his geometry of religious knowledge is like a triangle that its sides are including: Quran, Mysticism and proof. The reason has the primary and basic role to achieve the Quranic and mystical transcendental knowledge which never can be left.