THE ROLE OF THE THEORY OF THE SPHERES IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS OF MUSLIM THINKERS

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IMANPUR MANSUR

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Journal: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Year:2011 | Volume:2 | Issue:1 (5) Page(s): 81-99

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THE ROLE OF THE THEORY OF THE SPHERES IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS OF MUSLIM THINKERS

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SPHERESQ3

DREAMQ3

PTOLEMAIC GEOMETRYQ2

VERTICAL INTELLECTSQ2

CORPOREAL RESURRECTIONQ2

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CREATED AND THE ETERNALQ2

Abstract

One of the admitted premises that has played a significant role in some of the discussions of Muslim philosophers and the formation of some of their ideas is the theory of the SPHERES with Earth as its center. This theory has significantly affected some of the important theories of Muslim philosophers so that some of them, such as Farabi and Ibn Sina, in order to interpret the quality of the emanation of SPHERES and their souls, brought faith in the inclusion of the three-fold directions in each of the intellects higher than the tenth intellect. Accordingly, they interpreted the quality of the emanation of a lower intellect and spherical body and the soul. Given the number of the SPHERES and the Earth located at their center, they also limited the number of VERTICAL INTELLECTS to 10. Suhrawardi also believed in the unlimited multiplicity of VERTICAL INTELLECTS considering the same SPHERES and the stars existing in some of them.The relationship between the created to the eternal, and the changing to the fixed is also one of the problems that Islamic philosophers (particularly, the Peripatetic and Illuminationist philosophers) tried to interpret and justify by resorting to the circular movement of the SPHERES. The philosophers advocating the Transcendent Philosophy solved the above problem based on the trans-substantial motion; however ,they never completely denied the impact of the circular movement of the SPHERES on the sublunary world.Islamic philosophers also benefitted from the theory of the SPHERES in the interpretation of DREAMs. They believed that the SPHERES and spherical souls were the tablets and sources of particular perceptions and maintained that the knowledge of DREAMs and hidden affairs was the product of the connection of human souls to spherical souls. Moreover, some of these philosophers (for example, Suhrawardi) believed that the problem of recollection and reminding forgotten affairs is possible through the same connection with the source of particular sciences, that is, spherical souls.The CORPOREAL RESURRECTION of some of the human souls is one of the problems that some Muslim philosophers have tried to interpret by reference to spherical bodies. They believe that ignorant souls imagine their worldly ideas and affairs by connecting with spherical bodies and, in this way, feel imaginative pain or pleasure.The purpose of the present paper is to interpret and analyze the above problems and to examine and criticize the approaches of Muslim philosophers in this regard.

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IMANPUR, MANSUR. (2011). THE ROLE OF THE THEORY OF THE SPHERES IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS OF MUSLIM THINKERS. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, 2(1 (5)), 81-99. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/223107/en

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IMANPUR MANSUR. THE ROLE OF THE THEORY OF THE SPHERES IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS OF MUSLIM THINKERS. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY[Internet]. 2011;2(1 (5)):81-99. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/223107/en

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MANSUR IMANPUR, “THE ROLE OF THE THEORY OF THE SPHERES IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS OF MUSLIM THINKERS,” HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, vol. 2, no. 1 (5), pp. 81–99, 2011, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/223107/en

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