Maʿrifat al-nafs
معرفتالنفسmaʿrifat al-nafs
- Preferred translation
- self-knowledge
- Technical sense
- reflexive knowledge of the human soul as one's own self
General Technical Meaning
Maʿrifat al-nafs is a person's knowledge of the human soul as that person's own self; a held philosophical account distinguishes it from inferential knowledge of another soul.
Reader note. This definition is limited to knowing one's own soul as oneself. It does not cover every practice or doctrine associated with self-knowledge.