Mowlānā Jalāl-al Din Balkhi and the Problem of Fate and Freedom
Subject Areas : Mytho
1 - دانشیار زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه تربیت مدرس
Keywords: love, kalam, Predestination and Free will, Mowlānā's Masnavi, Jalāl-al Din Mohammad Balkhi,
Abstract :
The problem of reconciling predestination (jabr) and free will (ekhtiyār) has preoccupied the minds of many Islamic theologians. Shi'ism holds an intermediate position between the Ash'arite and al-Jahmiya predestination and the Mu'tazilite doctrine of freedom (tafwid). Mowlānā Jalāl-al Din Balkhi, the Persian mystic, is an Ash'arite himself, yet his deep mystical inclinations give a different color to this central issue of Kalam (Islamic theology). Considering his ideas about "Love", this article studies Mowlānā's method in solving the problem of jabr and ekhtiyar.
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