This article brings together tiles of 16th century Persian architecture and 21st century digital tiles of moving image to explore new potentials beyond the perceived image. As minimal parts of a bigger image, they both appear still and motionless. However, Persian Islamic philosopher, Mulla Sadrā Shirazi’s (1571-1640) theory of ‘substantial motion’ (al-harakat al-jawhariyya) argues that, at the...

the present paper, through the linguistic analysis of mulla sadra's philosophical views, has shown that a single linguistic model can be applied to the analysis of all his philosophical views. to this end, based on two linguistic theories regarding the semantic structure of derivation, it is illustrated that mulla sadra’s philosophical views conform to the linguistic model of semantic simp...

The purpose of this article is to review the main concepts Mulla Sadra’s philosophy. These ideas are foundation Al-Hikmah Al-Muta'alliyah group philosophy theory. This philosophy, along with Al-Masya'iyyah and Al-Isyraqiyah, one three major groups in Islamic study used a descriptive analysis. author reviews work Sadra, namely fil Al-Sysfar 'Aqliyah Arba'ah another book, Al-Masya'ir. Secondary r...

Many human tragedies arise from religious extremism. This paper seeks to explain and provide an argument that the root of problem extremism lies in failure recognize essence religion its equality with humanity itself. In context Islam, through hermeneutics Mulla Shadra this attempts Qur'an, man nature are three aspects a single existential reality. introduction brought all peak their sacred per...

the theory of perfect man that was dispersed in published works of islamic thinkers, started out as an independent subject and eventually annotations were added to it. the ontological aspect of this issue has been reviewed several times. however, the worldly functions of the perfect man have not been analyzed yet. unlike some mystics and sufis who limit the perfect man to practice in spiritual ...

mulla sadra, regards existence as something simple and gradual. rather, he believes that human being have one identity. it is, however, of simplicity and gradation both. for him there are close relation between the stages of soul and the degrees of existence and perceptions. as a result of this relation, every one of human perceptions connects with one of degrees of existence. the knower, in mu...

over 1100 quranic verses as well as 250hadiths attributed to the holy prophet, holy imams, and companions can be found in mulla sadra’s asfar. although mulla sadra is known as a philosopher, his unfinished commentary on al-kafi evidences that he has been familiar with hadith and other respective sciences as well. however, he has appeared more in a mystical persuasion in choosing hadiths in asfa...