The Psychology of Belief and Doubt in Al-Farabi Philosophy of Religion

Abstract

Psychology of belief and doubt appears in the state of individuals, philosophers, or researchers where they reiterate that something is correct and can be trusted while the other is not true which automatically emerges doubt. The research article tried to understand this psychology of belief and doubt regarding the philosophy of religion given by Al-farabi. Al-farabi was a scholar and philosopher popularly known for his mathematics, medicine, and metaphysics work. Al-farabi was an intellectual and pragmatic thinker, so this also drove his philosophies. He was among the Islamic scholars who gave less importance to religion and more preference to the sciences and math and emphasised the development of humankind. Sufism very much influenced his early life; hence, in his religious beliefs, Sufism has been able to find space. His belief in finding common ground in religion and politics in Islamic society is doubtful because Islamic countries had yet to be secular in politics. This concept of belief and doubt has been covered here with the help of secondary data from peer journals and analysed through thematic analysis. The data analysis has been discussing this in five different themes based on the concept of belief and doubt, importance of region and religious belief, religious philosophy of Al-farbi and the beliefs and doubts of philosophy of Al-farabi.