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As a result of the contact of Muslims with different religions, cultures and civilizations with the conquests in the first period, it became a necessity to explain Islamic thought, especially the principles of faith, by a method of expression based on reason. In this context, revelation-based Islam has been interpreted in the context of the religions, beliefs and cultures of the conquered geographies that existed in the region before Islam. As a result, a religious and cultural interaction occurred and different disciplines, especially Islamic philosophy and theology, were partially influenced by ancient schools of thought such as Greek philosophy, Sabianism and gnosticism.
Although the angel issue is not a subject that is directly at the forefront in the Islamic belief system, its importance is understood when it is considered together with other belief principles. For, angels have a key role in the relationship between God-human and God-universe, with their intermediary qualities, in the context of the realization of God's power and will. Accordingly, the views accepted on the existence and characteristics of angels indirectly affect these issues. In this context, since the angel issue is understood differently by Islamic philosophers and some creed sects than what theologians generally understand, it has been the cause of some criticisms when the issues it is related to are also considered. As a matter of fact, philosophers' constructing their cosmologies, including angels, based on Greek philosophy and gnostic and hermetic thoughts, bringing angelic functionality to certain celestial bodies and activating celestial minds as a means of revelation are some of the reasons for these criticisms. However, their understanding of this issue did not appear directly as a problem of belief, since it is an explanation and rational explanation of the angel subject in terms of different thought and belief systems, it only caused a critique in the context of the issues it was concerned with.
The importance of the angel subject in Islamic thought in terms of kalam and philosophy is mostly due to its connection with the subject of prophethood. The subject of angel, which is explained on the basis of the cosmologies of philosophers, has been understood on the basis of dividing the universe into two as the moon and the moon, as in the ancient schools of thought and philosophy in Islamic philosophy. Accordingly, the celestial bodies and minds that exist in the lunar realm correspond to the angels in Islamic thought. As these celestial bodies, especially the sun and stars, have souls at the same time, these spirits have the power of influence in the realm of the moon. This aspect of the issue explains the relationship between God and the realm regarding the angel. For, these celestial bodies correspond to the angels in the religious literature, and they are entities in charge of the administration and administration of the universe.
On the other hand, the issue of Revelation, which is tried to be explained by the theory of feyz or sudur, is another important issue in this context. Angels are the key entities in the understanding of revelation, which means that the angels of revelation, who have an external existence in the science of kalām, convey some information outside the prophet that is divine in both word and meaning. However, with the understanding of prophethood and revelation revealed by the philosophers, the understanding of angels also differ. For, according to Islamic philosophers, the prophet can reach the information that comes from the first mind with his innate "imagination". This information was sent down to the prophet as a number of signs and meanings, and these meanings are translated into words by the prophet in a level and language that the audience can understand. In addition, in this understanding, it is not possible to talk about the concrete existence of the relevant angels in the outside world during revelation. The fact that the existence of the angels in the external world is the subject of discussion here and that the revelation was not sent down to the prophet in a literal and poetic manner but only as a meaning led to the accusation by some theologians that philosophers denied the existence of angels. However, it should be noted that this claim was not accepted by most theologians and therefore did not lead to a claim that philosophers left religion.