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TAGS: * Philosophy; * Science; - Islam; Active force and its recipient; Cosmology; Creation; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Philosophy, Greek; Philosophy, Islamic
Abstract:
Discussion of the two terms fa`ilayn (the active force / "the generating influence") and munfa`ilayn (its recipient / "such as receive its impact") in Islamic philosophy, and their later use in Shaykhi and Bahá'í texts.
Notes:
Translated by Brown in 2002; actual date of Andalib issue 5:19 not given. See also Brown's translation of A Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá Explaining Three Verses in the Lawh-i-Hikmat.

Lawh-i-Hikmat:

The Two Agents and the Two Patients

Vahid Rafati

Keven Brown, translator

published in Andalib

5:19, pp. 29-38

2002

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