Religion and Mysticism in philosophy of Avicenna: Non-Aristotelian Elements

Dadjoo, Ebrahim

doi:10.22034/hpi.2025.543553.1162

Religion and Mysticism in philosophy of Avicenna: Non-Aristotelian Elements

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسنده

Ebrahim Dadjoo

Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought

10.22034/hpi.2025.543553.1162

چکیده

Avicenna is the philosopher of Peripatetic Philosophy, and he has inherited some of foundations and principles of Aristotelian philosophy. But, Avicenna, in his Islamic philosophy, has transcended from Aristotle, and has presented other and further foundations and principles. Among new foundations that he has presented are his religion and mystical principles. Avicenna has talked, in his religion principles, from fivefold principles of Monotheism, Prophecy, Resurrection, Leadership(Imamate), and Justice: God has the whole qualities of perfection and is creature, originator, knower, and omnipotent; Divine Foreknowledge suitable being of prophet; Divine Foreknowledge suitable being of Resurrection; for prophet is better to attribute on his next leadership(imam) and caliph; and legislator must bring laws that invite to justice, that is moderation in affairs. Avicenna, in his mystical principles, insist on principles of hierarchy of causes and effects; principles of priority of knowledge and purification on arriving at active intellect and other intellects and, at last, on arriving at the most high God; and he talks, with detail, about true love and diffusion of love in whole world and things, from devotion and worship, from degrees of itinerary of spiritual path in arriving at the God, from mystical degrees of interior purification and exterior purification, and from spiritual dispositions of mystics.

کلیدواژه‌ها

wisdom

studying

disputing

learning

reasoning

موضوعات

تاریخ فلسفه اسلامی

Persian

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Arabian

1. Avicenna(lunar 1402), Al-Isharat-wa-Al-Tanbihāt, (Remarks and Admonitions), with commentary of khajeh Nasir Al-Din-e-Tosi and commentary on commentary of Gotb Al-Din-e-Rāzi, Vols. 3, Iran-Tehran, Daftar-e-Nashr-e- Ketāb Press.

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2. Avicenna (lunar 1404), Al-Shifā (Healing), Al-Ilāhyāt (Metaphysics), and Al-Tabiyāt(Physics), Introduction by Dr. Ebrāhim Madkor, Iran-Qom, published with copying in Aiat-Allāh-Al-Ozmā-Al-Marashi-Al-Najafi Press.

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English

1. Aristotle(1984), The Complete Works of Aristotle, Barnes, Johnathan, ed. vols. 2, Princeton University Press.

2. Dadjoo, Ebrahim(2025), "Some of non-Aristotelian elements in philosophy of Avicenna", Tehran, Ale-Taha Institute of Higher Education, History of Islamic Philosophy, 4(1), 117-142.

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