allamah tabatabai interprets the doctrine of attributive monotheism of god under the philosophical theory of the identity of god’s perfection attributes with his essence. because, in his view point, it is the only rational way for explanation of attributive monotheism. according to this theory, all divine perfection attributes are identical with each other and with god’s nature in external worl...

question about the possibility of knowledge about the true nature of divine essence and attributes has always been one of the most important issues in the history of human thought. in various statements of imam ‘alī (a.s.)’s sayings, it is asserted that knowledge about the true nature of divine essence and attribute is not possible for man by any of recognition tools. although this type of know...

Hojviri wrote his book Kashf al-Mahjub under the influence of sectarian and social developments and challenges in society and on the basis of his intellectual and religious backgrounds. Following an epistemological approach this article attempts to discuss his views on monotheism and some related issues, such as divine essence, attributes and vision. Moreover, epistemological analysis of Hojvir...

from the point of view of the mystics, “creation” in its conventional meaning does not have a real existence and whatever observed in the universe is but the manifestation of the essence of divine unity. all creatures are “manifested” and the real “being” is exclusive to the divine essence. in religious terms, whatever manifested in the world of existence is “the face of allah”. on the other ha...

every one of the scholars in theology, philosophy and mysticism has their own methodologies for explaining and proving the necessity for the existence of the perfect man. theologians have applied the ‘rule of grace’ in this regard. philosophers tend to prove the existence of the perfect man by means of ‘the holy capability of the acquired intellect (aql al-mustafad)’ as well as ‘divine wisdom’....

While scholars of Leibniz’s thought are certainly familiar with his arguments for the existence of God, it has only recently become more widely known that the past century’s greatest logician, Kurt Gödel, also proposed an argument for the existence of God that bears striking similarities to Leibniz’s ontological arguments. In this paper, I shall sketch the arguments of Leibniz and Gödel, commen...