Abstract:
It is not clear that how and in which ways did Ancient skepticism comeinto Islamic thought. Because we do not have any knowledge that the worksof Greek skeptics were translated into the Arabic. This is, probably, becauseof the fact that Moslem theologians have overlooked the skepticism.However, the cultural condition of Iran in pre-islamic period provided theskepticism with a favorable atmosphere for its penetration undercover intoIslamic era. Thus, all whom called as “sofestai” is Shi'i. It came to bepossible to get a place for “skepticism for belief” in Islamic thought withBatinites in that they had assigned true knowledge to “innocent imam” andrefused to accept the speculation. Ghazali maintained to use Aristotelian logicagainst them. Henceforth Batinite thoughts lost their significant and value.
