Understanding Islamic Sciences (Persian: آشنایی با علوم اسلامی or Persian: کلیات علوم اسلامی) is a book which contains Morteza Motahhari's essential lectures and articles on Islamic sciences (logic and philosophy, theology, mysticism, practical wisdom, principles of jurisprudence and Fiqh).

[11][12] This book has been compiled for those who want to get acquainted with Islamic teachings and an attempt has been made to establish simplicity and brevity at the same time as accuracy in this series.

[13] An important feature of the book Understanding Islamic Sciences is the form of the Motahhari's lectures.

This series of discussions and lectures was for the first year students of the Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies of the University of Tehran, written with fluent and eloquent and understandable expression for beginners and for people with low acquaintance with complex Islamic sciences terms.

Logic is a tool of the type of rule and law that observing and applying it keeps the mind from making mistakes in thinking.

[30][31] Theoretical part of mysticism interprets existence, discusses God, the world, and man.

[31] This means that everything you see along the way, including the events, words and deeds of the people, are all and all the sounds and images that God has sent to you, and the world is a screen that gives you His message.

[40][41] The sources of jurisprudence from the Shiite point of view are four things: Book of God: Quran,[42] Sunnah: means the words, deeds and narrations of the Prophet or Imams, Ijma and reason.

[51][52] Of course, the title of these three volumes was changed to Generalities of Islamic Sciences (Persian: کلیات علوم اسلامی) in 2005.

[53][54] In English edition, all these topics were collected in a book and published as a volume entitled Understanding Islamic Sciences: Philosophy, Theology, Mysticism, Morality, Jurisprudence.

[55] The English edition published in 2002 by ICAS Press (Islamic College for Advanced Studies Pub.