A Theological Critique of Architecture in Terms of the Islamic Philosophy of Becoming (Relying on the Theory of Seyed Monir al-Din Hosseini al-Hashemi)

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Department of Architecture, Pardis Branch, Islamic Azad University, Pardis, Iran

10.22059/jcis.2024.376279.1382

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A theological critique of a changing whole is meaningful only when one can establish a relation among past, present, and future changes. Today, any change in architectural components result in a new definition, and in each definition, the descriptive language is disconnected from the previous definition. Such an approach fails to characterize the changes in architecture; in which case one cannot meaningfully be led to the desired condition. The philosophical approach of becoming, which has for decades been propounded by some scholars in the Islamic Academy, seems to be able to provide an appropriate framework for a critique of a changing whole from a theological view. This paper aims to identify the changing whole of architecture and direct its changes toward the divine criterion in the agential system. Therefore, “the truth” as the divine criterion, and the “direction or bias of the attributes of architecture toward the innate nature” as the measure of the divine criterion in terms of the descriptive, subjective, and objective model paves the ground for approximating the status quo of the work to its desired future condition.

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Classical and Contemporary Islamic Studies (formerly known as Journal of Contemporary Islamic Studies)
Volume 7, Issue 1
January 2025
Pages 85-102

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