ABSTRACT
The Muslim philosophers’ doctrine of prophecy, so far as its psychologico-metaphysical bases are concerned, is founded upon Greek theories about the soul and its powers of cognition. The chief framework of their doctrine of the prophetic revelation is the famous doctrine of intellectual cognition obscurely mooted by Aristotle in the third book of his De Anima, but developed later by his commentators, especially by Alexander of Aphrodisias, although, as we shall see in the next chapter, the Muslims incorporated into this general framework, other elements, Stoic and neo-Platonic, and, above all, those found in the fluid, eclectic Hellenism of the early centuries of the Christian era.
