Pursuing the Peripatetic Argument of Incorporeality for God's Knowledge in the Works of al-Allamah al-Hilli

God's knowledge is one of the important issues of theology which raises debates among scholars throughout history. Peripatetic philosophers assumed God's incorporeality as one of the reasons for God’s knowledge of himself and creatures. They argued matter is the obstacle for knowledge and as a result of His incorporeality, God has knowledge of himself and other. Avicenna had borrowed the argument from the Greek peripatetic philosophers and stated in his works. Then other Muslim philosophers and theologians have studied the argument. Generally, the theologians had critical view toward the argument and criticized it in different aspcts. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi had mentioned the summery of the argument in his book Tajrid al-itiqad and later al-Allamah al-Hilli developed the argument in his commentary to al-Tusi’s book. At the end of his commentaries, al- Hilli referred the issue to his more intellectual books. Thus, the present paper is trying to review the roots of the argument throughout the history of human’s thought and in al-Hilli’s intellectual works as well as revealing the philosophical clarifications of the argument.