Corporeal Resurrection in Philosophy of Avicenna and Mulla Sadra

Subject Areas : Philosophy

Mehdi Najafi Afra ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2014-11-10 Accepted : 2014-11-10 Published : 2005-06-22

Keywords: corporeal resurrection, soul, body, Matter, Form, intellectual world, heavenly bodies,

Abstract :

The resurrection, specially corporeal resurrection, has possessed animportant position in Islamic philosophy.Exertion of the reason and tradition, has caused various views amongMuslim thinkers. Avicenna and Mulla Sadra are the most importantsages who have an exclusive opinion about this subject. Superficially,Avicenna has denied corporeal resurrection and Mulla Sadra hasaccepted it; but in this critical assessment, that formal contradiction isrejected and an affinity of the two has been designed