1- Baqir al-Uloom University , N.Bahmani@bou.ac.ir
2- University of Qom
3- Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran
2- University of Qom
3- Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran
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The prevalent physicalist perspective cannot adequately account for all properties of light. Although light possesses some characteristics of material bodies, it also exhibits certain non-material and unconventional attributes. In modern physics, evidence such as its masslessness, constancy of speed in vacuum, uncountability of its particles(photons), indeterminacy of spatial position for its particles, and lack of structure indicates light’s distinction from conventional physical and material bodies. Based on findings in modern physics and the insights of Muslim philosophers, particularly those of Transcendent Wisdom, light can be conceptualized as an exemplar and intermediary between the material and immaterial realms. This enables the proposal of a continuous gradational luminous system(niẓām-i nūrī-i tashkīkī) extending from the material to the immaterial without positing any separation or discontinuity between them. This paper elucidates the criteria of material bodies in Islamic philosophy and the properties of light according to the latest findings of modern physics, arguing that perceptible, natural light, by virtue of its trans-material properties, serves as an apt connecting link between matter and immaterial entities
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