Idrāk

إدراكidrāk

Preferred translation
apprehension
Grammatical variants
  • apprehensions
  • apprehends
Technical sense
cognitive grasp of an object, covering sensory and intellectual modes and both conception and assent
Distinguish from
fikr (discursive thought) — fikr is discursive thought, the ordering of known premises toward an unknown conclusion; idrāk is apprehension itself, of which discursive thought is one mode.

General Technical Meaning

Idrāk is the taking or presence of the perceived object’s form in the perceiver. In the account attributed to Ibn Rushd, its four kinds are sensation, imagination, estimation, and intellection. Considered by the presence or absence of judgment, cognition divides into conception and assent.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In al-Manāmāt, variation in the strength of apprehension explains variation in the strength of the effects under discussion. This causal role does not replace the broader general definition.

Source: Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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Canonical address: /glossary/idrak/