ABU AL-HASSAN AL-MAWARD？'S KNOWLEDGE CONCEPT？ON

Mawardi's views on theory of government, administration, politics and morality have come to the fore. Maverd？, however, is a versatile scholar. He is mostly remembered as a theologian, a moralist and a scholar of Islamic jurisprudence. In this study, Maverd？'s understanding of knowledge as a theologian and jurist is examined. The theory of knowledge constitutes one of the common subjects of the kalam and jurisprudence. In the study, the possibilities and problems of the two disciplines about knowledge theory were examined together. The reason for this is to take the fiqh of his theory of knowledge about kalam and then develop a knowledge theory around it. In this article, we tried to focus our attention on this topic and to examine knowledge, its sources, sharia provisions, sources and methods of sharia provisions