An Analysis of the Constitutive Role of Islamic Philosophy In Light of the Intellectual Foundations of Reza Davari Ardakani

Hasan Pour, Fateme; Shanazari, Jafar

doi:10.22067/epk.2025.94913.1471

An Analysis of the Constitutive Role of Islamic Philosophy In Light of the Intellectual Foundations of Reza Davari Ardakani

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

fateme hasan pour ¹

jafar shanazari ²

¹ student

² master

10.22067/epk.2025.94913.1471

Abstract

This article analyzes the constitutive role of Islamic philosophy with particular emphasis on the intellectual foundations of Reza Davari Ardakani. The study is conducted through qualitative content analysis and inferential reasoning. By examining Davari’s writings, the authors arrive at an interpretation according to which a philosophy may possess a constitutive role. This interpretation is based on three key elements, whose identification, epistemological analysis, and incorporation into the premises of an analytical argument are all undertaken by the authors. These key elements comprise Davari’s distinctive understanding of history, the nature of philosophy, and the role of the philosopher. According to the authors’ analysis of his perspective, philosophy expresses a particular manifestation of Being, history constitutes the realization of that manifestation, and the philosopher is its observer and narrator. Building upon these foundations, the authors first analyze the constitutive role of philosophy in its general sense and then examine more precisely the meaning of the constitutive role of Islamic philosophy. Accordingly, Islamic philosophy is understood as a distinctive understanding of Being, while the philosopher is regarded as the narrator of that understanding within the historical context of the Islamic world. Therefore, based on the aforementioned interpretation of the underlying structure of Davari’s thought, Islamic possesses a constitutive role.

Keywords

Being

History

Philosophy

Philosopher

Reza Davari Ardakani

Islamic Philosophy

Subjects

Islamic Philosophy and Kalam

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