Univrsity Of Tehran Press Philosophy and Kalam 2008-9422 53 1 2020 05 21 Khafri’s Views on Individual Unity of Existence Khafri’s Views on Individual Unity of Existence 49 64 76597 10.22059/jitp.2019.271759.523076 FA Gholamreza Banan Ph.D. of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Shiraz University Ali Mohammad Sajedi Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Shiraz University Journal Article 2018 12 31 The unity of being, as the most fundamental pillar of mysticism and transcendent Wisdom, has been the locus of exchanging views among scholars in these two fields of sciences. The present study tries to investigate whether or not the individual unity of existence was reasonably proposed by philosophers before Mulla Sadra in philosophy. Shams al-Din Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Khafari is one of the philosophers of the ninth and tenth centuries AH who has raised this issue and presented an argument for it. Proposing two arguments from Khafri, including the analysis of the causality and the analysis of the unity of the concept of existence, we come to the conclusion that he has expressed the individual unity of existence in a reasoned manner during his philosophical discussions, through declaring subjects like principality of existence, particular gradation, copulative existence, and so on, long time before Mulla Sadra. The unity of being, as the most fundamental pillar of mysticism and transcendent Wisdom, has been the locus of exchanging views among scholars in these two fields of sciences. The present study tries to investigate whether or not the individual unity of existence was reasonably proposed by philosophers before Mulla Sadra in philosophy. Shams al-Din Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Khafari is one of the philosophers of the ninth and tenth centuries AH who has raised this issue and presented an argument for it. Proposing two arguments from Khafri, including the analysis of the causality and the analysis of the unity of the concept of existence, we come to the conclusion that he has expressed the individual unity of existence in a reasoned manner during his philosophical discussions, through declaring subjects like principality of existence, particular gradation, copulative existence, and so on, long time before Mulla Sadra.

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