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Introduction to the Department of Islamic Studies and Islamic Philosophy

Introduction to the Field of Philosophy and Islamic Theology

Background of the Field:

The field of philosophy should be considered the oldest humanities discipline in the world. This knowledge also has a long history in Islam and Iran. With the advent of Islam and the special attention of this divine religion to rationality, this knowledge grew among Muslim thinkers, and these scholars, by utilizing the findings of past philosophers and inspired by the divine teachings, began to compile a knowledge that is now referred to as Islamic philosophy. In the tradition of Islamic thought, we also encounter another knowledge called theology, whose thinkers examine, study, and defend religious beliefs. These two disciplines were considered in the seminaries before the establishment of the university in Iran, and it is still the case, but with the establishment of the university, it was taught for the first time as a university field in 1313 in the Faculty of Rational and Traditional Sciences (today's Faculty of Theology) of the University of Tehran.

Subject of the Field:

Philosophy in its general sense includes all rational sciences and includes theoretical and practical wisdom and applied philosophies. But in its specific sense, it is a science that is referred to by the titles "Theology," "First Philosophy," "Higher Philosophy," "Metaphysics," or "General Science." Although in Islamic philosophy, emphasis is placed on first philosophy, other branches are also considered. Thinkers of this field try to place the most general and fundamental questions of humanity in various fields before themselves and provide profound answers based on rational argumentation for them. With this approach, thinkers have been striving to understand the world and considered achieving the truth to be dependent on knowing the objective world - as it really is. Issues such as existence, knowledge, causality, motion, time, God, man, etc. are matters that are addressed in this field.