Document Type : Original Article
Author
Associate Professor of the Department of Islamic Studies of Allameh Tabatabai University
Abstract
Undoubtedly, reason plays a fundamental role in the creation and development of knowledge and, accordingly, in religious knowledge. The formation of understanding from religion and sharia is also related to human reason and there is a kind of correlation between religion and reason. But thinkers have different opinions on how, its limits and its connection with revealed knowledge. In this research, Mohammad Abed Al-Jabari's perspective, which is one of the modern contemporary intellectual currents, was compared with Allameh Tabatabai's perspective in these fields in order to measure the capacities of each to respond to social and political issues in the field of religion. Based on this, the subject of the research was arranged like this; "Comparative examination of the foundations of rationality from the point of view of Allameh Tabataba'i and Muhammad Al-Jabri" and with a descriptive-analytical method in the works of both advanced thinkers and calculated the effective indicators in the rationality of each, the findings of the research showed that the foundations of rationality are: In Al-Jabri's thought, culture , society, history have originality in the development of reason and are unique to them, but in Allameh Tabatabai's view, religion, revelation and monotheistic nature have originality, and the role of culture, society and history in the development of reason play a role in the framework of creation and under divine guidance.
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