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IMAM FAKHR AL-DIN AL-RAZI

1. INTRODUCTION	·         Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi was one of the Islamic figure. ·         Living in the second half of the sixth century. ·          He wrote on history, grammar, rhetoric, literature, law, the natural sciences and philosophy, and composed one of the major works of Qur'anic exegesis. ·         His disputatious character, intolerant of intellectual weakness, frequently surfaces in his writings, but these are also marked by a spirit of synthesis and a profound desire to uncover the truth, whatever its source. ·         He was very persuasive when he spoke and been characterized by an independence of thinking and rational approach
2. CONTENT (Biography)	·         Name : Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Husayn al-Taymi al-Bakri al-Tabaristani Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (known as Fakhruddin Al-Razzi) ·         Mazhab : As-Shafie ·         Place of birth : Ray (Iran) ·         Born date : 1149 CE (543 AH) ·         Date of death : 1209 CE (606 AH) ·         Place of death : Herat Afghanistan ·         Interest : the traditional Islamic fields of Sharia law, Fiqh jurisprudence, Islamic literature, Tafsir exegesis, Kalam theology, Arabic grammar and Muslim history; the Islamic philosophies of ethics and metaphysics; the formal sciences of logic and mathematics; the natural sciences of astronomy, cosmology and physics; Islamic psychology; medicine; and the occult arts of alchemy and astrology.
2. CONTENT (Contribution)	·         Islamic theology Tafsir Al-Kabir (The Great Commentary) contains much of philosophical interest. ·         Fiqh jurisprudence His most imporant work on Sharia law and usul al-fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) was the Al-Mahsul fi 'Ilm al-Usul, also known as the Al-Mahsul. ·         Medical reseach Al-Razi's Sharh Kulliyyat al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (Commentary on Canon of Medicine) was a medical commentary on Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (1025). Al-Razi also discussed medical theories in his Matalib al-'Aliya ·         Islamic psychology Al-Razi wrote a book on Islamic psychology, or Nafs, entitled Kitab al Nafs Wa’l Ruh (Book on the Soul and the Spirit and their Faculties). The work deals with both human psychology and animal psychology along the same lines. ·         Islamic philosophies of ethics and metaphysics His most important works on Islamic philosophy were the Mabahith al-mashriqiyya fi 'ilm al-ilahiyyat wa-'l-tabi'iyyat (Eastern Studies in Metaphysics and Physics), also known as Mabahith al-mashriqya (Eastern Discussions), as well as the Sharh al-Isharat (Commentary on the Isharat), a commentary on the physics and metaphysics of the Kitab al-Isharat wa-'l-Tanbihat (Book of Remarks and Admonition) by Ibn Sina (980-1037) In his Ilm al-Akhlaq (Science of Ethics), al-Razi built upon the ethical writings of Al-Ghazali, particularly the Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din, providing a systematic framework for ethics based on psychology.
3. CONCLUSION	·         Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi search for the  knowledge, acquire knowledge, practice and preach this knowledge. No man becomes truly a Muslim without knowing the meaning of Islam, because he becomes a Muslim not through birth but through knowledge ·         His disputatious character, intolerant of intellectual weakness, frequently surfaces in his writings, but these are also marked by a spirit of synthesis and a profound desire to uncover the truth, whatever its source.
4. REFERENCE	1.  Tafsir Al-fakh Al-Razi -Author: Muhammad ibn Umar -Publisher : Darul Fikri (1997) 2. Sufi Commentaries on the Quran In Classic Islam -Author: Kristin Zahra Sands -Publisher : Routledge (2006) 3. Silsilah Ulama Tafsir -Author : Ali Yusuff Ali -Publisher : Pustaka (1989) 4. Muslim philosophy science and mysticism -Author : Hamid Naseem -Publisher : New Delhi Sarup & Son (2001) 5. Concise history of Afghanistan -Author : Hamid Wahed Alikuzai -Publisher : Trafford Publishing, (2013)