seyyed ali hashemian bojnord; Ahmad Khatami
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One of the most important concerns of Sanai is confrontation between reason and religion and their commonalties. Sana'i's varied opinions on reason and Sharia have led some to consider him a theologist, and some have called him a religiously devoted poet. In some cases, he has even been considered anti-rationalist. ...
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One of the most important concerns of Sanai is confrontation between reason and religion and their commonalties. Sana'i's varied opinions on reason and Sharia have led some to consider him a theologist, and some have called him a religiously devoted poet. In some cases, he has even been considered anti-rationalist. Seemingly, the main reason for these varied reactions to Sana'i’s views on these issues is his consideration of the various aspects of reason and religion. The main question is what reason and sharia meant to Sana'i and under what conditions he preferred reason to sharia and sharia to reason. In this article, adopting a library type of research, we try to explain the contradictions in his statements on this topic. The conclusion is that Sana'i did not see any conflict between rationality and religiosity. He rather considered the two to be complementary at a level that transcend linguistic expression.
seyyed mohsen hosseini; eyn allah khademi; ramzan mahdavi azadboni
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Although al-Farabi’s treatise al- Jam’ Beyne Ra’yy Al-Hakimayn, affirms that the scope of the subject matter of philosophy encompasses all beings, and this is, in fact, an affirmation of the Greco-Aristotelian nature of philosophy, from the attributes and descriptors he counts for philosophy ...
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Although al-Farabi’s treatise al- Jam’ Beyne Ra’yy Al-Hakimayn, affirms that the scope of the subject matter of philosophy encompasses all beings, and this is, in fact, an affirmation of the Greco-Aristotelian nature of philosophy, from the attributes and descriptors he counts for philosophy it can be inferred that, in this treatise, he had the Quranic concept of wisdom in his mind for the term philosophy. The present paper argues that al-Farabi views the nature of philosophy as the knowledge of all beings, meanwhile the way he has depicted the identity of this knowledge reminds us of the religious concept of wisdom in the Muslim’s holy scripture. In a broader sense, the identity of philosophy, asdepicted in this treatise, has a Greco-Aristotelian nature with a religious identity characterized with Qur'anic terms such as persuasiveness, non-difference, lack of inconsistency in its rulings and conformity with the actual text as expressed by divine men to be received and emulated.