explanation of the multiplicity of the world and the way it was created from the beginning of existence is one the concerns of philosophers, including mullā ṣadrā. the discourse of the emanation of multiplicity from unity would be totally different with respect to the apparent words of ṣadrā, who believes in the gradational unity of existence and according to his specific viewpoint, believing i...

the subject of the present article is the problem concerning the unity of attributes and its relation to the unity of referent and multiplicity of concepts. in this problem, the theory of non-revealingness (‘adam-i kāshifiyat) of the multiplicity of concepts from multiplicity of referent is proved; and the rival theory, i.e., the revealingness of the multiplicity of concept from the multiplicit...

one of the fundamental problems of theoretical mysticism is how to explain the difference between god and the world on the basis of the idea of wahdat al-wujud (the unity of existence). following the explanation of certain necessary premises, this paper presents the theory of divine manifestation as one that can explain and analyze multiplicity. in this article we especially seek to solidify th...

Enterprise systems are attractive exactly as they promise a stronger unity – integration, collaboration and standardization – across distinct and different organisational units of a business. However, empirical research on enterprise systems has documented convincingly how situated workarounds undermine the unity of enterprise systems through local thus different practices and adoptions. This p...

because of using principles such as principality, unity, gradation of existence and concomitance between existence and unity, along with an exhaustive understanding of ibn sina's philosophical principle about our knowledge of unity and multiplicity, mulla sadra believed new philosophical-aesthetical principles such as principality, unity and gradation of beauty, though he didn't use t...

substantial movement is one of the most important sides of the gnostic geometry of the transcendental philosophy. in this writing, the notional aspect of the discourse and the way the substantial movement is based on the principality of existence is discussed. given the multiplicity of impressions from the principality of existence and the mentally-positedness (i‘tibāriyyat) of quiddity (māhiyy...

In a world in which the intellect has become synonymous with reason and intuition with a “biological” sixth sense concerned with foretelling future events, it becomes difficult to understand what intellect and intuition, these two key faculties upon which knowledge is based, can mean in the context of Islamic thought. To understand the meaning of these terms in the traditional Islamic universe ...