Abstract

According to Aristotle's famous classification, wisdom is divided into practical and theoretical. Following Aristotle's classification, Muslim philosophers divided practical wisdom into ethics, household management and civil policy. With a glance at the Muslim philosopher’s heritage, we can see that some philosophers like Al-Farabi, Ibn Miskawayh and Nasir al-Din Tusi wrote in-depth and dedicated books on this subject, while others such as Avicenna, Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra only talked briefly about practical wisdom. Studying life and teachings of some Muslim philosophers, we found three main cause of ignoring practical wisdom: Muslim scholar’s attitudes toward practical wisdom, social and political conditions of their era and checking back practical wisdom to knowledges such as jurisprudence.