The study of effective intellectual doctrinal methods on description of creation in the Toosi's Ajayeb al Makhlooghat

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University of Kerman, Iran

2 Deccan student of Persian language and literature, Faculty of Humanities, Azad University, Kerman Branch, Iran

Abstract

Wonder letters are the works, which describes the wonders of the world and apparently illusory topics. A range of different sciences such as, geography, astronomy, philosophy has come together along with relatively folk beliefs. The authors of the present study seek to investigate the subject of creation and its quality in Toosi's Ajayeb al Makhlooghat and Gharayeb al Mojoodat, to get the most popular perceptions of the Toosi's time about the examples such as, existence and creation through this issue and consider this possibility that whether Toosi in the design of these ideas in this work,proceeds based on certain structure or not!The authors of these study have been used the descriptive analytical method, in the initial stage due to the diversity of the opinions in the aforesaid work, first they have categorized intellectual tendencies and then with the focus on the subject of creation, reflect saparatly the opinions of the wise men, philosophers, legislators, theologians, Dahrion(naturalists) and according to the investigations obtained, Toosi tries to set a kind of equation in the presenting of opinions, but at the same time has more emphasis on the opinions of legislators. He benefits from the argumetative framework of the theologians and the knowledge resources of the wise men but does not try, in order to validate these groups. The structural diagram of Toosi ideas adjusted in the subject of creation based on the matter,rank,modes and the conclusion of that is the world of possibility which duality of man and soul is its manifestation.

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