Razi on Reason and Political Authority: A Study in Medieval Persian Political Thought
- 1 January 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Iranian Studies
- Vol. 49 (1), 29-55
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2014.940747
Abstract
The Philosopher of Rey, Mohammad-e Zakariya-ye Razi and his Ismaili adversaries, Abu Hatam-e Razi and Naser-e Khosrow, share a political understanding of religion according to which religion is a theologico-political system of domination. However, they are at odds over the political philosophy appraisal of religion qua a system of authority. The paper explicates the latter disagreement in part based on Razi's and his opponents' conflicting ideas about the nature of the faculty of Reason and its distribution among men. Consequently, the paper underlines a democratic implication of Razi's thesis on the makeup of the human intellect.Keywords
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