ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the basic conceptions together in order to view the emergent conglomerate whole, the conception of God of the Metaphysics. By determining the first and second cognitions of God, the chapter helps to properly place and conceive the special cognition of God. Abu'l-Barakat's explicit depiction of the first and second cognitions of God highlights this method, which allows US to view the different conceptions of God within the epistemological hierarchy. The Aristotelian philosophy described God as an exceptional case of being, whereas Abu'l-Barakat conceives God as the basis and origin of the existent, existence, and knowledge, hence, similar in conception. Abu'l-Barakat describes the two ways of reaching cognition of God. The first is by way of cognition of His actions, the negative conception; or alternatively, the direct ipseitical cognition, from man's ipseity to God's ipseity. Abu'l-Barakat also conceives God as the Necessary Existent.
