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Mullā Ṣadrā on free will and freedom

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Abstract

Although even before the coming of Islam, a “predestinarian view” could be identified in the Arabic tradition, and so apparently Arabs were not unfamiliar with the conflict between human free will (iḫtiyār) and predestination, after the emergence of Islam and the emphasis of Qurʾān on God’s omnipotence, this question arose more seriously in different forms in the Islamic world. It was during the Umayyad period of Islamic history that the problem of destiny became the subject of discussion between two groups of thought, the so-called Qadariyya and Ǧabriyya, and some questions raised explicitly: If human will is entirely determined by God, how would God’s justice be justified? What would happen to human responsibility for his sins? Adherents of Qadariyya believed that man is free and the agent of his own actions, and so is responsible for his deeds. In contrary, according to Ǧabriyya, man is determined by God in all his actions.


Corresponding author: Zakieh Azadani, University of Tehran, Enqelab Ave., 1417935840 Tehran, Iran (the Islamic Republic of); and Universität Zürich, Asien-Orient-Institut, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland, E-mail:

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Received: 2021-06-17
Accepted: 2022-05-06
Published Online: 2022-08-29
Published in Print: 2022-05-25

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