Transcendent Theosophy

This article was registered in the quality assurance religion . Help eliminate the shortcomings in this article and participate in the discussion .

The Transcendent Theosophy (al-hikmat al-muta'āliyah حكمت متعاليه) is from the Persian philosopher Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Yahya Qawāmī Shirazi known as Sadr ad-Din or Mulla Sadra (* 1571 or 1572 in Shiraz - † 1640 in Basra ) developed philosophy, which is one of the most important main disciplines of Islamic philosophy and theology to this day.

The philosophy and ontology of Mullā Sadrā brought "a new philosophical insight into dealing with the concept of reality and created a great transition from essentialism to existentialism " in Islamic theosophy .

term

The term al-hikmat al-muta'āliyah comprises two terms:

Literally translated, hikmat means wisdom, knowledge, mystery, mystery, meaning and cleverness and in the special Islamic-philosophical context theosophy.

muta'āliyah means transcendent.

This term was used long before Mullā Sadrā by several Sufis and theosophists, such as Qaysarī and Qutb ad-Din Mahmud ibn Masud al-Shirazi . But in these earlier descriptions the intended meaning was by no means the same as that found in the writings of Mullā Sadrā and his disciples. Note that Mullā Sadrā never directly described his philosophy as al-hikmat al-muta'āliyah . He only used the term in the book title of two of his works: al-Hikmat al-mutaāliyah fi-l-asfār al-aqliyyat al-arbaah and his last work al-hikmat al-muta'āliyah.

Years after him, the term was introduced into Islamic theosophy by his students and established to represent Mullā Sadrā's school of thought and theories.

definition

Transcendent Theosophy explains that existence (being) is an axiom that needs no further proof or justification, since we can perceive existence with our presence knowledge alone. Accordingly, all phenomena in the world are in harmony in the axiom of being , since existence comes from the same, single source (the almighty Creator). Being embraces for the whole of truth. The properties, plurality and differences of these phenomena is based on their essence. The almighty creator is the necessary existence , the absolute being, which is at the highest and highest level of existence and from which all beings originate. All other beings strive for absolute being (necessary existence) in order to perfect themselves. The creatures and the created strive continuously to their source. This movement is an essential part of Sadrā teachings, the "Substantial Movement".

Individual evidence

↑ Kamal, Muhammad (2006), Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy , Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., pp. 9 & 39, ISBN 0-7546-5271-8
^ ^A ^b Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Sadr al-Din Shirazi & His Transcendent Theosophy, Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, Tehran 1978, Publication No. 29, p 85.
↑ Noor Alî-Shâh Elahi, Knowing the Spirit , translated by James Morris: State University of New York Press., 2007
↑ Mulla Sadrā's Conception of the Barzakh and the Emerging Science of Spirituality: The Process of Realization (tahqīq). In Islam-West Philosophical Dialogue (Papers Presented at the First World Congress on Mulla Sadra), Tehran, SIPRI Institute, 2005, vol. X, pp. 93-103.

[1] Kamal, Muhammad (2006), Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy , Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., pp. 9 & 39, ISBN 0-7546-5271-8

[:0-2] A ^b Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Sadr al-Din Shirazi & His Transcendent Theosophy, Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, Tehran 1978, Publication No. 29, p 85.

[3] Noor Alî-Shâh Elahi, Knowing the Spirit , translated by James Morris: State University of New York Press., 2007

[4] Mulla Sadrā's Conception of the Barzakh and the Emerging Science of Spirituality: The Process of Realization (tahqīq). In Islam-West Philosophical Dialogue (Papers Presented at the First World Congress on Mulla Sadra), Tehran, SIPRI Institute, 2005, vol. X, pp. 93-103.