List of Articles Akbar  Faydei

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  1 - Khoonaji’s most Important Logical Innovations and Abhari’s Role in their Development
  Akbar  Faydei Kamran Ghayoomzadeh
  The roles of Khoonaji and Abhari in the development and growth of Sinan logic in the seventh century (AH) are undeniable. In addition to expanding and disseminating some of Ibn Sina’s innovations and modifying some of Fakhr al-Din Razi’s creative logical ideas, they had More

  The roles of Khoonaji and Abhari in the development and growth of Sinan logic in the seventh century (AH) are undeniable. In addition to expanding and disseminating some of Ibn Sina’s innovations and modifying some of Fakhr al-Din Razi’s creative logical ideas, they had their own logical innovations in this respect. From among them, reference can be made to dividing the categorical defined proposition into four absolute factual, absolute external, factual-subject, and actual-subject propositions; adding the mental proposition to the binary division of the categorical quantified proposition into factual and external types; distinguishing the negative inverse conversion proposition from the positive one; discovering the physical proposition and separating it from the indefinite and singular propositions; discovering the reflection of the particular negative proposition on peculiar propositions, providing a detailed discussion of the conditions and the validity judgment of the fourth form in mingled propositions and adding three modes to its conclusive modes in compound modal propositions. This paper intends to explain and investigate such innovations. Manuscript profile
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  2 - A Solution to the Dilemma of Evil in the View of Muslim Philosophers and Mutikallimun
  Akbar  Faydei M‘arufali  Ahmadvand
  The problems related the issue of evil, such as the ontological philosophy of evil-doers, obscene acts, and their true agent, are among the most important philosophical and kalami problems which have occupied the minds of human beings since long ago and prepared the gro More

  The problems related the issue of evil, such as the ontological philosophy of evil-doers, obscene acts, and their true agent, are among the most important philosophical and kalami problems which have occupied the minds of human beings since long ago and prepared the ground for certain questions and suspicions regarding the most fundamental teachings of heavenly religions such as wisdom, justice, power, benevolence, and divine favor. In this way, some have developed the illusion of challenging the essence of God’s Existence or the absoluteness of His Attributes, such as knowledge, power, and benevolence. Accordingly, in the course of history, Muslim thinkers have tried to find some solutions to the questions and ambiguities regarding the problem of evil. The present paper is intended to introduce and evaluate the most important approaches presented by Muslim philosophers and mutikallimun in order to unravel the mystery of evil, explain a basic solution to the problem of evil in Islamic philosophy and kalam, and justify its compatibility with the existence and attributes of Almighty Necessary. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Farabi’s Innovations in Logic and his Role in the Dissemination and Transformation of Aristotelian Logic in the World of Islam
  Akbar  Faydei Seyyed Ahmad  Hosseini
  Through clarifying the complex concepts in Aristotelian logic in his masterful commentary on all chapters of Aristotle’s Organon, as well as through his unprecedented innovations in the field of logic, particularly in his division of knowledge into “concept and judgment More

  Through clarifying the complex concepts in Aristotelian logic in his masterful commentary on all chapters of Aristotle’s Organon, as well as through his unprecedented innovations in the field of logic, particularly in his division of knowledge into “concept and judgment”, Farabi developed the Greek logical legacy in the world of Islam. In the present paper, the writers initially refer to and explore some of his ideas in the field of logic, such as the division of different types of knowledge into two categories of concept and judgment, his view of the particular and the universal and the origin of man’s knowledge, his division of universal concepts into the first and the second intelligible, his synthesis of Aristotle’s theory of predication with Porphyry’s five-fold universals, his definition of essentialism, his view of the inconsistency of modal negation with permissible negation, his specific theory of future possibility, his idea of induction and analogy, and his innovation regarding fallacy and the explanation and expansion of the different stand-points in this regard. Manuscript profile
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  4 - The Problem of Predestination and Free Will and Mulla Sadra’s Innovative Solution
  Akbar  Faydei
  The problem of Divine Decree and Ordinance and its relationship with human acts has occupied the minds of Muslim thinkers since long ago. The undeniable universality of God’s Decree and Ordinance and its consistency or inconsistency with man’s free will have resulted in More

  The problem of Divine Decree and Ordinance and its relationship with human acts has occupied the minds of Muslim thinkers since long ago. The undeniable universality of God’s Decree and Ordinance and its consistency or inconsistency with man’s free will have resulted in the formation of the problem of predestination and free will and the rise of three major kalami and religious views of predestination, entrusting, and amr bayn al-amrayn (neither predestination nor entrusting, but something between them). Through explaining the problem of predestination and free will and rejecting the views of determinists and the followers of entrusting, the writer of this paper tries to demonstrate the consistency of the Divine Decree and Ordinance with man’s will based on the teachings of the Shi‘a school of thought and the truth of the theory of intermediate position and Mulla Sadra’s innovative interpretation of the issue. Manuscript profile