IBN BAJJA (D. 581 AH) AND THE SUFI INFLUENCE IN COGNITIVE ASPECT OF HIS PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy's relationship with Sufi thinking is a simulation of both sides of human understanding. Consideration, logic, and inference are all mental aspects. And there's a spiritual side in which a person senses and accepts the existence of a vast metaphysical force that governs the entire world. With the abstract intellect, no human being can grasp the nature of this force and this unseen realm. As a result, most civilizations and people have attempted to explain this through religion in order to satisfy this spiritual side. Sufism was one of the highest and purest incarnations of Islam, since it represented the transcendent spiritual part of the religion to match the sensible side of worship and transactions. For Muslim philosophers, Islamic mysticism represented a meeting point between religion and philosophy. Although philosophy and Sufism are not the same However, they share many topics, difficulties, and dilemmas, such as ethics, beyond nature (theology, and prescient), and knowledge, particularly since some philosophers accepted the illuminating knowledge that relies on intuition and taste. As a result, mystical philosophers like Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and Ibn Tufayl, as well as Sufi philosophical intellectuals like Ibn Arabi, Ibn Saba'in, and others, appeared in our Islamic civilization. Ibn Bajja,was our topic here , he was one of those thinkers whose philosophy had a strong influence on mystical thought , despite what was said about his commitment to rational knowledge and his criticism of Sufi strategies for realizing the truth. In this research after this introduction, we dealt with Ibn Baja's personal and scientific biography in the first topic, and in the second section, we dealt with the Sufi impact on Ibn Baja's cognitive aspect, and we concluded this research with a conclusion.