Ma`rifat

Abstract One of the important issues for religious knowledge is its stability and change. Changing religious knowledge without leading to epistemological relativism requires a constant dimension. The purpose of this article is to examine the position and role of the essentials of religion as a constant dimension for religious knowledge. Using the descriptive-analytical method, this article has been made according to the essential position of religion in the view of Islamic thinkers. The findings show that although the essentials of religion were more prominent in jurisprudence and the discussion of faith and disbelief; But basically, it has an epistemological nature and can play a good role in the discussion of the stability and change of religious knowledge. Although human knowledge, including religious knowledge, such as monotheism, expands longitudinally and horizontally; But there is a necessary level of knowledge in it that remains constant and is the axis of the connection of these knowledges. In the religious epistemology of this axis, it is the essentials of religion that prevent disunity and epistemological relativism.