Bayraktar, MehmetKılıç, İbrahim2022-04-192022-04-192003http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/79009Al-Kindi, who lived in ninth century A.D., is the first represantative of Islamic philosophy. He has very important function in the transmitting of Greek philosophy to the Islamic world. This study deals with Al-Kindi's theory of knowledge. My thesis consists of three chapters apart from the introduction and the conclusion. In the first chapter, it was aimed to determine which sources, from Works of Greek philosophers, that Al-Kindi was provided with them. Also, his view of logic, his classification of the science and his view of method are being analyzed. Furthermore, it is being taken up that what kind of judgments he preferred to use to get the result in philosophical problems. And it is being given some samples from his Works about these kind of judgments that he preferred. The second chapter deals with Al-Kindi's theory of knowledge. And it was aimed to determine the basics of his theory of knowledge. Also, it is being investigated the thoughts of Al-Kindi about senses and intellect from the point of human knowledge. The problems of universals are also being analyzed in the context of their representation for the true knowledge. In the third chapter, it is being taken up the relation between intellect and revelation that is very important issue in Islamic philosophy. And it is being investigated the thoughts of Al-Kindi in the nature of revelation and its source. Also its being analyzed his thoughts about the relation between intellect and revelation with comparing to the thoughts of other muslim philosophers about the same issue.trFelsefemasterThesis