the kind of attitude to mulla sadra’s works is important in deducing his views accurately. here, there are two types of attitudes. first, the real sadra’s views are what we understand literally from his assertions. the second is that the deduction of his final ideas needs some philosophical independent judgment (ijtihad) in addition to what is understood literally from his assertions and other ...

In this paper, I will explore Kierkegaard's life and philosophy, regarding his theory of stages and what it means to be an authentic religious person, compared and contrasted with the Bodhisattva path and series of perfections leading to enlightenment found in the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism. An endeavor will be made to show how Kierkegaard's religious person is similar in some ways to the B...

sometimes disagreement in regards to reading a qur’ānic verse has resulted in a paradoxical judgment and this occurs in traditions, as well. but the way in which one can consider paradoxical verses arises from the so-called ‘alājīyah traditions. the question that arises here is as follows: can the rules presented by these evidences be also extended to the paradoxical readings? if so, what are t...

ibn abī al-ḥadīd, as one of the commentators of nahj al-balāgha has tried in his commentaries to take into consideration one of the important principles of fiqh al-ḥadīth, i.e. critique of tradition. having examined the critical approach of the commentator in his writings as well as his pivotal ijtihād (legal reasoning) in his treating traditions, the writer of this article has studied the meth...

Rob Kling’s editorship of The Information Society (TIS) from 1995 to his sudden passing on May 15, 2003 was a unique moment in the life of TIS or for that matter any research journal. He operated above paradigms and methodologies, and his editorial instincts were receptive to research from all traditions. Our tendency is to ease into intellectual cubbyholes where fellow researchers conveniently...

amongst imami scholors, sharif murtadā is one of the first jurists who created some books in genre of comparative jurisprudence. amongst his books in this genre, the most important after  intisar is masail al- nāşiriyyāt which is composed to explain and sometimes criticize the legal positions of his great grandfather (from his mother side), namely naşir uţrūşh. this essay concerns to study the ...

Do Marjorie Garber’s premises that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare apply to his reception in Asian contexts? Shakespeare’s Asianization, namely adaptation of certain Shakespeare elements into traditional forms of local cultures, seems to testify to his timelessness in timeliness. However, his statuses in modern Asia are much more complicated. The compl...

if we take ibn malik as the connecting chain of the interconnected history of syntax, we will find him among the last analytic scholars and theorist grammarians, since in his era, the principles of syntax has been established and grammarians didn’t provide new ideas. but discussion of ibn malik’s innovative syntactic approaches is important because of two reasons. due to his authoritative posit...