in the evolution of muslim’s philosophical thought, it was sadr al-motaallehin who overcame many of complexities in philosophical studies on the soul and presented a new outlook. it is clear that mulla sadra’s philosophical psychology has been depended upon his special principals. the present research, therefore, is to explain the effect of sadra’s theory of substantial movement, as one of his ...

suhrawardi’s thoughts and works have had an important impact on formation and developing of mulla sadra’s philosophy, especially theory of “primacy of existence”. although it seems that suhrawadi did not accept this theory, his exact view about it is not known. we can ascribe four features to him: 1. suhrawardi who believes in the primacy of quiddity, 2. suhrawardi who believes in the primacy o...

william lane craig, american recent philosopher has tried with appealing to cantor’s latest ideas and also theory of “big bang” in physics; present a new explanation of cosmological argument. his explanation which is called “kalam- cosmological argument” is going to describe moslem philosopher’s argument in this aspect, like kendi and ghazali. he makes efforts to refuse the doctrine of eternali...

mulla-sadra in his different philosophical and theological works has discussed the issue of resurrection (ma-add), both in spiritual and bodily way. in this works he attempted to demonstrate the issue of bodily resurrection according to the principles that formerly have been proved in his philosophical system. the subject is that, the quantity of these principles differs from one work to anothe...

ibn sina characterizes sidiqin argument as an argument by means of which the existence of necessary being is proved just on the basis of reflecting on the nature of being. he claims that his versions of the argument satisfy the criterion, really. mulla sadra, however, argues first that ibn sina’s arguments are not, properly speaking, based on reflecting on the nature of being, and second that t...

The use of the monomolecular film Arosurf@ MSF as a mosquito larvicide was first reported by Ganett and White (1977). Since then, the efficacy of this larvicide on many mosquito species has been demonstrated in a wide variety of aquatic habitats (Levy et al. 1981, 1982; Mulla et al. 1983, Takahashi et al. 1984). Aquatic plants which occur in fresh and salt water habitats are an important source...

the ideal theory is plato’s most important philosophical view involving his allegory of the cave. he tried much to explain this theory and present arguments in order to prove it. however, his views on the proof arguments and the concrete materials with ideals suffer from shortcomings. the present paper argues that the critiques of aristotle, avicenna, and allamah tabatabaee against this theory ...

rawzah al- shuhada, by mulla husayn wa‘iz-i- kashifi (d. 910 a.h), is one of the most influential books on karbala tragedy in recent centuries. nevertheless, it has been criticized by the shi‘a scholars for spreading spurious narratives among later works and public beliefes as well. the present article, discussing uncreditable narratives and falsifications in the work of kashifi, intendes to in...