Mohammd Hossein Kolahi; Reza Rahnama
Abstract
The relationship between divine/ human's knowledge and will is one of the long-standing problems which various philosophical and theological schools debate on. We shall examine the ...
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The relationship between divine/ human's knowledge and will is one of the long-standing problems which various philosophical and theological schools debate on. We shall examine the Ḥilla leading mutakallimūn's, who thoroughly recognize Baghdadī, Muʿtazilī, and Ashʿarī kalām, Avicennianism, and illustration, viewpoints on the subject. In this article, after their reception of late Muʿtazila, we shall demonstrate that al-Ṭūsī and al-Suyūrī receive al-Baṣrī's view on divine will. Similarly, al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī almost confirm his idea. Nonetheless, al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī does not aseert same idea in his various works. Chronologically, he accepts al-Baṣrī's opinion in his early work Manāhij al-yaqīn, however, he criticize him in the later work Nahj al-mustarshidīn. Accordingly, we shall investigate the former analysis' on ʿAllāma's viewpoint on divine will, e.g. that of Schmidtke (1991 and 1994), and illustrate that they ignore some of Ḥillī's works. After all, it will be philosophically analyzed their, Ḥillī mutakallimūn's, view and presented that their viewpoints are imcomplete.
