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=TABLE OF CONTENTS=
Rationalist Islam is an epistemic-led, principle-first, and rational-empirical branch of Islam that grounds views, practices, and identity in a set of independently justified and domain-specific rational principles.


==Part I The Necessary Existent==
Adherents adopt “Islam” and "Muslim" as identities only after critical assessment of historical evidence suggests that Muḥammad substantially aligned with these principles. Rationalist Islam is, therefore, a continuation of the historical Muhammadan movement with the aim of maximising the wellbeing of all sentient inhabitants of the world.


===Chapter 1. Cultural terms===
The guiding maxim often associated with Rationalist Islam is “Religion as movement — not monument,” emphasising an ongoing, adaptive, principle-led, evidence-based, ethically purposive project rather than static veneration and dogma.


Ahura Mazda • Allāh • Aten • Baha • Brahman • 'Ēl • Father • God • God the Father • Shangdi • The One • Unconditioned Reality • Vishnu • Waheguru • Yahweh
Proponents describe Rationalist Islam as a continuation — and internal reformulation — of the broader Near Eastern and Mediterranean “wisdom tradition,” drawing a conceptual lineage from classical philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus), biblical and late antique sapiential currents (including the Jesus movement’s emphasis on justice and inner transformation), through Muḥammad’s proclamations, early and medieval Islamic philosophy (falsafa) and mysticism (taṣawwuf/ʿirfān), and extending into modern historical-critical and scientific methods.


===Chapter 2. Epistemic framework===
==Terminology==


====1. Epistemology====
As an entailment of their commitment to intellectual accommodation and rationalist epistemology, adherents identify and describe themselves contextually — modulating terminology and self-designation according to the audience, subject matter, and communicative purpose.  


=====1.1 [[Philosophy]]=====
This adaptive self-representation arises from their understanding that linguistic forms are vehicles of understanding rather than static markers of identity. Within this framework, the use of diverse religious labels functions pedagogically: to convey the essence of truth in whichever language resonates most coherently with a given community.


====2. Logic====
As a result, Rationalist Muslims assume a wide variety of seemingly conflicting names and employ them contextually, including:


====3. Law of identity====
===Muslim===


3.1 [[Law of non-contradiction]]
===Inner Circle Muslim===


3.2 [[Law of excluded middle]]
===Shi'i===


====4. Propositions====
===Inner Circle Shi'i===


====5. Principle of sufficient reason====
===Red Shi'i===


===Chapter 3. Deductive proof===
===Mystic===


===Chapter 4. Objections and refutations against them===
===Rationalist Mystic===


===Chapter 5. [[Oneness]]===  
===Neoplatonist===


====5.1 Cultural terms====
===Gnostic===


Henosis • Monism • Monotheism • Nondualism • Oneness • Samadhi • Tawhīd
===Esotericist===


====5.2 Epistemic framework====
===Essentialist===


====5.3 Deductive proof====
===Akbarian===


====5.4 Objections and refutations against them====
===Twelver Shi'i===


===Chapter 6. Necessary simplicity===
===Imami===


====6.1 Cultural terms====
===Ja'fari===


Divine simplicity
===Khomeinist===


====6.2 Epistemic framework====
===Sunni===


====6.3 Deductive proof====
===Salafi===


==Part II Immaterial dimension==
===Theist===


===Chapter 1. Cultural terms===
===Monotheist===


Intelligible dimension • Intelligible realm • Intelligible world
===Divine Simplicist===


===Chapter 2. Existential truths (Logic)===
===Christian===


====2.1 Rule of one====
==Cognitive dispositions==


====2.2 Gradation of existence====
===1. [[The Law of Identity]]===


===Chapter 3. Numbers (Number theory)===
“whatever is, is; whatever is not, is not.”


===Chapter 4. Dimensions (Geometry)===
Every entity or proposition is self-identical and distinct from its negation.


===Chapter 5. Algebraic structures (Algebra)===
===2. [[The Law of Non-Contradiction]]===


==Part III Immaterial dependent existents==
“nothing can both be and not be in the same respect.”


===Chapter 1. Ontologically first dependent existent===
Nothing can both be and not be in the same respect.


====1. Cultural terms====
===3. [[The Principle of Sufficient Reason (minimal intelligibility form)]]===


First creation • First intellect • First light • Image of God • Imago dei • Mashīyya • Nūr Muhammadiyya • Pen • Perfect creation • Qalam • Universal intellect
“every real state of affairs has some reason or ground.”


====2. Epistemic framework====
Every real state of affairs is intelligible; it has some reason, ground, or explanation for why it is rather than not, even if that reason is intrinsic.


====3. Deductive proof====
===4. [[Recognition of Contingency]]===


===Chapter 2. Ontologically second dependent existent===
“some things exist but could, in principle, not have existed.”


===Chapter 3. Ontologically third dependent existent===
There exist beings whose non-existence involves no contradiction.


===Chapter 4. Ontologically fourth dependent existent===
===5. [[Denial of Vicious Circularity and Infinite Explanatory Regress]]===


===Chapter 5. Ontologically fifth dependent existent===
Explanation cannot be self-grounding or infinitely deferred; every chain of dependence must terminate in something self-sufficient.


===Chapter 6. Ontologically sixth dependent existent===
==Conative dispositions==


===Chapter 7. Ontologically seventh dependent existent===
===1. Preference for truth over comfort===


===Chapter 8. Ontologically eighth dependent existent===
===2. Desire for personal development===


===Chapter 9. Ontologically ninth dependent existent===
===3. Desire for the maximisation of global wellbeing===


===Chapter 10. Ontologically tenth dependent existent===
===4. Desire to actively participate in the maximisation of global wellbeing===


==Part IV Material dimension==
===5. Tendency for self-sacrifice===


===Chapter 1. Cultural terms===
== The Rational Entailments ==


Cosmos • Dunyā • Material realm • Material world • Multiverse • Olam HaZeh • Physical world • Sensible dimension • Sensible realm • Sensible world • Universe
From the cognitive and conative dispositions follows a series of entailments that together constitute the framework of Rationalist Islam. They are not adopted as beliefs, asserted as doctrines, or accepted by tradition, but are said to follow by necessity from the structure of reason itself.


===Chapter 2. Actualising potential===
Each entailment represents what any rational intellect must affirm once it accepts the laws of thought and the intelligibility of being: that contingent existence requires grounding, that explanation must terminate in the self-sufficient, and that the pursuit of knowledge within each domain must proceed according to the logic appropriate to that domain. What follows, therefore, are not articles of faith but the logical unfoldings of reason — the positions that reason itself necessitates concerning existence, knowledge, and ethics.


====Cultural terms====
Rationalist Islam proceeds on the principle that no claim is exempt from reason’s jurisdiction. Every position is derived — not asserted — by applying the Five Prior Rational Commitments. What follows is a continuous sequence of conclusions that any rational agent should grant once those priors are accepted.


'Ibādah • Islām • Servitude • Submission • Worship
===1) Metaphysical rationalism===


===Chapter 3. Temporal causation===
===2) Foundationalism===


===Chapter 4. Continuous change (Calculus)===
===3) Epistemic parsimony===


===Chapter 5. Events (Probability theory)===
===4) Ontological parsimony===
===5) Primacy of [[Consciousness]]===


===Chapter 6. Evolution (Evolutionary biology)===
===6) Analytic idealism===


==Part V Material dependent actualised rational existents: Homo perfectus sapiens==
===7) Oneness of consciousness===


===Chapter 1. Cultural terms===
Monism • Nondualism


Demigod • High-Conscious Individual • High-Integration Individual • Hujjah • Imām • Infallible • Insān al-Kāmil • Insān ‘alā Khuluqin ‘Adhīm • Integrate • Ma'sūm • Messenger • Meta-Conscious Agent • Nabī • New Man • Perfect human • Perfect rational animal • Philosopher king • Prophet • Rasūl • Transhuman • Übermensch
===8) Ontological priority===


===Chapter 2. Epistemic framework (Logic, philosophy, speculative anthropology & religion)===  
===9) Gradation of consciousness===


===Chapter 3. Deductive proof===
Gradation of existence • Gradation of reality • Tashkīk al-wujūd


===Chapter 4. Objections and refutations against them===
===10) Meta Consciousness===


===Chapter 5. Evolution===
Ahura Mazda • Allāh • Aten • Baha • Brahman • Dao • 'Ēl • Father • God • God the Father • Necessary Existent • Necessary Existentiator • Necessary Reality • Pure Consciousness • Shangdi • Tao • The Divine • The One • Unconditioned Reality • Vishnu • Waheguru • Wājib al-Wujūd • Yahweh


===Chapter 6. Intellect===
===11) Necessary simplicity===


====6.1 Epistemic framework====
Al-Basāṭah al-ilāhiyyah • Divine simplicity • Monotheism • Oneness • Oneness of Allah • Oneness of God • Tawhīd


====6.2 Deductive proof====
===12) Absolute necessary simplicity===


====6.3 Terms and usage====
===13) Conscientiation ex conscientia===


'Aql • Nous
Badā'a • Creatio ex deo • Origination


===Chapter 7. Information: Ungraded acquisition===
===14) Necessitarianism===


====7.1 Epistemic framework====
ʿAdl • Divine justice


====7.2 Deductive proof====
===15) Eternalism / [[Eternal Creation]]===


====7.3 Terms and usage====
===16) Rule of one===


Anubhava • Enlightenment • Ilhām • Nirvana • Perfect knowledge acquisition • Revelation • Wahī
===17) First conscientiate===


====7.4 Objections and refutations against them====
First creation • First intellect • First light • Image of God • Imago dei • Mashīyya • Nūr Muhammadiyya • Ontologically first dependent existent • Pen • Perfect creation • Qalam • Universal intellect


===Chapter 8. Information: Ungraded dissemination===
===18) Intermediary conscientiates===  


====8.1 Epistemic framework====
Angels • Immaterial existents • Malāʾika


====8.2 Deductive proof====
===19) Observable universe===
Cosmos • Dunyā • Material dimension • Material realm • Material world • Multiverse • Natural World • Olam HaZeh • Physical world • Sensible dimension • Sensible realm • Sensible world • Universe


====8.3 Terms and usage====
===20) B-theory of time===


====8.4 Objections and refutations against them====
Tenseless theory of time


====8.5 Nominees====
===21) Compatibilism===


Bible • [[Hadīths]] • Qur'ān (Mushaf of 'Alī) • Qur'ān ('Uthmānic codex)
Divine Decree • Divine Predestination • Illusion of Libertarian Free Will • Predestination • Qadar • Soft determinism
====8.6 [[Divine Prophecy]]====


===Chapter 9. [[Information: Graded dissemination]]===
===22) Perdurantism===


Cognitive reframing
===23) Physical empiricism===


====9.1 Epistemic framework====
Empirical method • Scientific method


====9.2 Deductive proof====
===24) [[Mindfulness]]===


====9.3 Terms and usage====
Dhikr • God consciousness • Meditation • Salāh • Taqwā


Intellectual dissimulation • Taqīyya
===25) Self-cultivation===


====9.4 Objections and refutations against them====
===26) Superiority of intellect===


====9.5 Nominees====
===27) Rational self-governance===


Bible • [[Hadīths]] • Qur'ān (Mushaf of 'Alī) • Qur'ān ('Uthmānic codex)
===28) Mysticism===


====9.6 Seminaries====
'Ibādah • Islām • Servitude • Submission • Worship


=====9.6.1 [[Hawzah al-Hikmah]]=====
===29) Prayer===


===Chapter 10. Social interaction===
Ṣalāh


===Chapter 11. Diet===
===30) Fasting===


===Chapter 12. Candidates===
Ṣawm


[[Confucius]] (551–479 BCE, China) — Philosopher, educator, ethicist.
===31) Charity===
Advanced consciousness expressed as ethical cultivation and the idea that harmony in the individual extends outward into society, shaping relational and collective awareness.


[[Socrates]] (469–399 BCE, Greece) — Philosopher, teacher.
Almsgiving • Zakāh
Embodied radical self-examination, dialogical truth-seeking, and the courage to die for principle, making consciousness of virtue the measure of life.


[[Plato]] (428–348 BCE, Greece) — Philosopher, writer, founder of the Academy.
===32) Pilgrimage===
Elevated abstraction and the reality of universals, treating consciousness as participation in the realm of forms, an early theory of mind’s reach beyond perception.


[[Zhuangzi]] (369–286 BCE, China) — Philosopher, Taoist sage.
Ḥajj
Emphasised fluidity of perspective and dream-consciousness, dissolving rigid distinctions between self and world in a proto-nondual mode.


[[Aristotle]] (384–322 BCE, Greece) — Philosopher, scientist.
===33) [[Resistance]]===
Analyzed mind (psyche) as structured layers of life — vegetative, animal, rational — anticipating systematic study of consciousness.


[[Ashoka]] (304–232 BCE, India) — Emperor, Buddhist reformer.
Discipline • Exertion • Fighting • Holy war • Jihād • Sacred battle • Striving • Struggle
Dramatic transformation from conquest to conscience: renounced violence, spread ethical edicts, showing consciousness as a basis for political life.


[[Jesus]] (c. 4 BCE–30 CE, Judea) — Preacher, reformer.
===34) Heightened consciousness===
Preached radical inversion of social norms (“the last shall be first”), extending consciousness into unconditional love and inner purity, even at cost of crucifixion.


[[Plotinus]] (204–270 CE, Egypt/Rome) — Philosopher, founder of Neoplatonism.
Altered state of consciousness • Anubhava • Enlightenment • Henosis • Ilhām • Nirvana • Noetic mystical experience • Nubuwwah • Perfect knowledge acquisition • Prophethood • Samadhi • Revelation • Wahī
Articulated the ascent of consciousness from sense to intellect to mystical union with “the One,” framing awareness as ontological participation.


[[Augustine of Hippo]] (354–430 CE, North Africa) — Bishop, theologian.
===35) Gradation of Intellect===
Pioneered introspective analysis of memory, time, and will, treating consciousness of self as the site of encountering truth.


[[Muḥammad]] (570–632 CE, Arabia) — Philosopher, mystic, merchant, orator, poet, revolutionary, statesman, military commander.
Cognitive heterogeneity
Combined contemplative withdrawal (Ḥirā) with revolutionary vision: transformed fragments of oral, poetic, and legal consciousness into a unifying moral-legal system.


[[Ali]] (601–661 CE, Arabia) — Caliph, jurist, philosopher-poet.
===36) [[Local cultivation]]===
Renowned for sermons that combined courage, self-awareness, and metaphysical reflection; model of integrating ethical action and contemplative thought.


[[Fatima]] (c. 605–632 CE, Arabia) — Daughter of Muhammad, moral exemplar.
Messengership • Risālah
Remembered for eloquent sermons, advocacy for justice after her father’s death, and embodiment of moral integrity under political pressure. Represents advanced consciousness as ethical witness and personal sacrifice.
===37) Global cultivation / [[Maximisation of Personal & Global Wellbeing (Constrained)]]===


Hasan ibn Ali (624–670 CE, Arabia) — 2nd Imam, grandson of Muhammad.
===38) Noocracy===
Praised for conciliatory leadership; relinquished political authority to avoid bloodshed, embodying consciousness of peace and ethical restraint in volatile times.


Husayn ibn Ali (626–680 CE, Arabia) — 3rd Imam, grandson of Muhammad.
Imāmah • Perfect manhood • Philosopher kingship • Technocracy
Martyr of Karbala, archetype of sacrificial consciousness: prioritised truth and justice over survival, becoming a symbol of resistance against tyranny across cultures.


Ali al-Sajjad (c. 659–713 CE, Arabia) — 4th Imam.
===39) [[Philosopher King]]===
Survivor of Karbala, embodied contemplative consciousness through supplications (al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya), integrating suffering with spiritual depth.


Muhammad al-Baqir (677–732 CE, Arabia) — 5th Imam.
Demigod • High-Conscious Individual • High-Integration Individual • Hujjah • Imām • Infallible • Insān al-Kāmil • Insān ‘alā Khuluqin ‘Adhīm • Integrate • Ma'sūm • Messenger • Meta-Conscious Agent • Nabī • New Man • Perfect human • Perfect rational animal • Philosopher king • Prophet • Rasūl • Transhuman • Übermensch
Scholar and teacher, expanded intellectual foundations of Islamic thought. Consciousness expressed through systematic transmission of knowledge amid political marginalisation.


Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765 CE, Arabia) — 6th Imam.
===40) Intellectual Accommodation===
Renowned teacher of science, theology, and law; many Sunni and Shiʿi scholars trace knowledge to him. Consciousness here as integrative intellect bridging faith and reason.


Musa al-Kazim (744–799 CE, Arabia) — 7th Imam.
Tawriyyah
Known for patience and endurance during repeated imprisonments. Advanced consciousness expressed as steadfastness and inner resilience under oppression.


Ali al-Rida (766–817 CE, Arabia/Persia) — 8th Imam.
===41) Intellectual Dissimulation===
Engaged in public theological debates at Abbasid court; remembered for tolerance and intellectual breadth. Consciousness expressed as rational dialogue and openness.


Muhammad al-Jawad (811–835 CE, Arabia) — 9th Imam.
Taqīyyah
Became Imam in childhood, yet led with intellectual precocity. Symbol of youthful consciousness applied to leadership and scholarship.


Ali al-Hadi (828–868 CE, Arabia) — 10th Imam.
===42) Cognitive reframing===
Lived under Abbasid surveillance, emphasised inner piety and guidance despite constraints. Consciousness here as quiet resilience and integrity under pressure.


Hasan al-Askari (844–874 CE, Arabia) — 11th Imam.
===43) Motifs and Imagery===
Restricted life in military garrison (Samarrāʾ), yet produced a legacy of ethical teachings. Consciousness expressed as leadership through personal example amid political isolation.


[[Avicenna]] (Ibn Sina) (980–1037, Persia) — Physician, philosopher.
Motifs—light, ascent, circle, garden, path—translate abstract truths into memorable forms that shape imagination and action. Repetition builds identity; symbol stabilises norms.
His “floating man” thought experiment explored immediate self-awareness independent of the body, a foundational insight into consciousness studies.


[[Ibn Arabi]] (1165–1240, Andalusia) — Mystic, poet, philosopher.
===44) Mythos for Most===
Elaborated the doctrine of the “Perfect Human” as the microcosm of all reality, theorising consciousness as the reflective mirror of the divine.


[[Dōgen]] (1200–1253, Japan) — Zen master, monastic reformer.
Symbol and story teach where proof cannot yet reach. Properly used, mythos is not falsehood but imaginal pedagogy—true content rendered in forms accessible to typical abstraction bandwidths. It is accommodation at scale.
Articulated “being-time” (uji), collapsing distinctions of time and consciousness, teaching meditation as direct embodiment of awareness.


[[Rumi]] (Jalal al-Din Rumi) (1207–1273, Persia) — Poet, mystic.
===45) Repurposing Myths and Legends===
Through ecstatic poetry and metaphor, expressed consciousness as love-driven dissolution of ego into unity.


[[Meister Eckhart]] (1260–1328, Germany) — Theologian, mystic.
Existing cultural materials can be redeemed: stripped of false metaphysics, rekeyed to the Necessary Existent and rational ethics, and redeployed for formation. Continuity with correction preserves social capital while elevating understanding.
Taught detachment and the “birth of God in the soul,” centering consciousness as a formless ground of being.


[[Mulla Sadra]] (1571–1640, Persia) — Philosopher, metaphysician.
===46) Metanarratives===
Developed gradational ontology (tashkīk al-wujūd), equating degrees of being with levels of consciousness, anticipating panpsychist lines.


[[Galileo Galilei]] (1564–1642, Italy) — Astronomer, physicist.
Human agents reason within stories. A metanarrative integrates metaphysics, ethics, and destiny into an intelligible arc that motivates virtue and sacrifice. Without a shared narrative, social coordination and long-range projects degrade.
Shifted consciousness of the cosmos from geocentric certainty to empirical infinity, pioneering observational awareness of nature.


[[John Locke]] (1632–1704, England) — Philosopher, theorist.
===47) Religion===
Defined personal identity as continuity of consciousness, influencing modern selfhood and rights theory.


[[Isaac Newton]] (1643–1727, England) — Mathematician, physicist.
===48) Religious beliefs===
Unified celestial and terrestrial mechanics, expanding human consciousness to a law-governed cosmos.


[[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] (1712–1778, Switzerland/France) — Philosopher.
Arkān al-īmān • Pillars of faith • 'Uṣūl al-dīn
Probed conscience, authenticity, and freedom, reshaping consciousness of self in society.


[[Immanuel Kant]] (1724–1804, Prussia) — Philosopher.
===49) Religious laws===
Explained consciousness as structured by categories of understanding; “transcendental unity of apperception” as ground of experience.


[[Thomas Paine]] (1737–1809, England/USA) — Writer, revolutionary.
Branches of religion • Furūʿ al-dīn • Pillars of practice
Voiced universal rights and democratic conscience, extending awareness of political selfhood.


[[Toussaint Louverture]] (1743–1803, Haiti) — Revolutionary leader.
===50) Need for Dogma===
Transformed consciousness of enslaved peoples into political agency, leading Haiti’s independence.


[[William Blake]] (1757–1827, England) — Poet, artist.
“Dogma” means publicly fixed minima of right belief and practice that coordinate a civilisation. It protects the many from costly error while leaving upper tiers open to demonstration and qualified debate. Dogma is not a substitute for truth; it is a civic guardrail toward it.
Visionary imagination turned consciousness into prophetic art, critiquing industrial rationalism.


[[G.W.F. Hegel]] (1770–1831, Germany) — Philosopher.
===51) Confessional identity===
Mapped consciousness through dialectical stages, culminating in self-realisation as Spirit.


[[Charles Darwin]] (1809–1882, England) — Naturalist.
Shahāda • Testimony of Faith
Altered consciousness of life by introducing evolution, dissolving static hierarchies of species.


[[Karl Marx]] (1818–1883, Germany) — Philosopher, revolutionary theorist.
===51) Need to Encourage and Control Behaviour===
Exposed class consciousness as historical driver, insisting on praxis linking thought to transformation.


[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] (1844–1900, Germany) — Philosopher.
Where demonstration alone will not move median behaviour, law, institutions, incentives, and norms are rational instruments to align action with the good. This is an application of PSR to collective life: effects follow causes; therefore, design the causes.
Pushed consciousness beyond truth-illusions toward life-affirmation, the “Übermensch” as higher integration.


[[Nikola Tesla]] (1856–1943, Serbia/US) — Inventor, engineer.
===Hagiography===
Harnessed visionary imagination, turning inner visualisation into scientific-technological breakthroughs.


[[Marie Curie]] (1867–1934, Poland/France) — Physicist, chemist.
Apotheosis • Deification • Divinisation • [[Ghulāt]] / Ghuluw • Heroisation • Legendary accretion • Mythicisation • Myth-making • Mythologisation • Mythopoeia • Sacralisation • Tawallā
Expanded human consciousness of matter by revealing radioactivity, with extraordinary intellectual discipline.


[[Mahatma Gandhi]] (1869–1948, India) — Lawyer, revolutionary.
===Heresiography===
Embodied sacrificial consciousness through satyagraha (truth-force), nonviolent resistance, and willingness to suffer for justice.


[[Rosa Luxemburg]] (1871–1919, Poland/Germany) — Revolutionary socialist.
Tabarrā
Integrated intellectual clarity with sacrificial activism, writing profound critiques while dying for her cause.


[[Rainer Maria Rilke]] (1875–1926, Austria) — Poet, writer.
==Timeline==
Explored existential states and consciousness of finitude through lyrical intensity.


[[Carl Jung]] (1875–1961, Switzerland) — Psychiatrist.
===Classical antiquity===
Developed the unconscious/archetypal model, framing consciousness as individuation toward wholeness.


[[Albert Einstein]] (1879–1955, Germany/US) — Physicist.
Socrates holds dialogues
Reconceptualised time, space, and relativity, demonstrating imaginative consciousness as scientific method.


[[Simone Weil]] (1909–1943, France) — Philosopher, mystic.
'''399 BCE, Athens, Greece'''
Married mystical attentiveness with radical political conscience, lived sacrificial solidarity with workers and victims.
<br />
Socrates is executed by poison


[[Ruhollah Khomeini]] (1902–1989, Iran) — Cleric, revolutionary leader.
'''387 BCE (c.), Athens, Greece'''
Unified metaphysics, mysticism, and political revolution, embodying sacrificial exile before seizing transformative power.
<br />
Plato founds the Academy


[[David Bohm]] (1917–1992, USA/UK) — Physicist, philosopher.
'''387 - ? BCE (c.), Athens, Greece'''
Proposed implicate order, dialogue as expansion of shared consciousness, bridging science and holistic awareness.
<br />
Plato conceives Theory of Ideas
<br />
Plato conceives Theory of Soul
<br />
Plato conceives Form of the Good
<br />
Plato conceives Allegory of the Cave
<br />
Plato conceives The Philosopher King
<br />
Plato conceives The Noble Lie


[[Nelson Mandela]] (1918–2013, South Africa) — Revolutionary, president.
'''335 BCE, Athens, Greece'''
Sacrificially endured 27 years in prison, then embodied reconciliatory consciousness over vengeance.
<br />
Aristotle founds the Lyceum


[[James Baldwin]] (1924–1987, USA) — Writer, activist.
'''335 BCE - ?, Athens, Greece'''
Articulated consciousness of race, identity, and love with radical clarity and eloquence.
<br />
Aristotle conceives formal logic


[[Malcolm X]] (1925–1965, USA) — Minister, activist.
'''27 CE (c.), Jerusalem, Roman Judea (modern Occupied Palestine)'''
Transformed his own consciousness through struggle, symbolising liberation through fearless self-reinvention.
<br />
[[Jesus]] begins noocratic revolution


[[Martin Luther King Jr.]] (1929–1968, USA) — Minister, civil rights leader.
'''30 CE (c.), Jerusalem, Roman Judea (modern Occupied Palestine)'''
Preached unitive, sacrificial love and justice, embodying higher ethical consciousness at great personal risk.
<br />
Jesus is demonised by Jewish ethnocratic propaganda
<br />
Jesus is executed by Roman timocratic crucifixion


[[Ali Khamenei]] (1939–present, Iran) — Cleric, revolutionary, head of state.
===Late antiquity===
Blends political leadership with a philosophical-mystical lineage, navigating survival under immense constraint.


[[Vaclav Havel]] (1936–2011, Czechia) — Playwright, dissident, president.
'''245–270 CE (c.), Rome, Roman Empire (modern Italy)'''
Coined “living in truth” as a form of political-moral consciousness in oppressive regimes.
<br />
Plotinus conceives The One
<br />
Plotinus conceives Emanation by the One
<br />
Plotinus establishes Neoplatonism
<br />
Proclus popularises Platonism


[[Hassan Nasrallah]] (1960–2024, Lebanon) — Cleric, political-military leader.
Pseudo-Dionysius symbolises Neoplatonism
Charismatic orator, blends political struggle with sacrificial posture under constant threat.


===Chapter 13. Reception===
'''610 CE, Mecca, Hejaz (modern Saudi Arabia)'''
<br />
[[Muḥammad]] begins noocratic revolution


====13.1 Hagiography====
'''622 CE, Medina, Hejaz (modern Saudi Arabia)'''
<br />
Muḥammad establishes noocratic revolution


=====13.1.1 Other terms=====
'''632 CE, Medina, First Islamic state (modern Saudi Arabia)'''
<br />
Muḥammad dies in suspicious circumstances
<br />
Abu Bakr restores clanocracy
<br />
[[Ali]] begins noocratic revolution
<br />
Fāṭima al-Zahrā dies following suspected clanocratic arson attack 


Apotheosis • Deification • Divinisation • Ghuluw • Heroisation • Legendary accretion • Mythicisation • Myth-making • Mythologisation • Mythopoeia • Sacralisation
'''656 CE, Medina, Rashidun Caliphate (modern Saudi Arabia)'''
<br />
'Uthmān ibn 'Affān is assassinated by sword


=====13.1.2 [[Ghulāt]]=====
'''656 CE, Medina, Rashidun Caliphate (modern Saudi Arabia)'''
<br />
ʿAlī establishes noocratic revolution 


===Chapter 14. Legends===
'''661 CE, Kufa, Rashidun Caliphate (modern Iraq)'''
<br />
ʿAlī is assassinated by kratocratic sword
<br />
Hasan ibn ʿAlī protects noocratic revolution
<br />
Hasan ibn ʿAlī is assassinated by poison
<br />
Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī begins noocratic revolution


ʾĀdām (Ādam, Adam)
'''680 CE, Karbala, Umayyad Caliphate (modern Iraq)'''
<br />
Husayn ibn ʿAlī is assassinated by clanocratic sword


Idrīs (Enoch or Hermes Trismegistus)
'''732 CE, Medina, Umayyad Caliphate (modern Saudi Arabia)'''
<br />
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq begins noocratic revolution


Nūḥ (Noah)
'''765 CE, Medina, Abbasid Caliphate (modern Saudi Arabia)'''
<br />
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq is assassinated by clanocratic poison


[[Hūd]]
===Islamic Golden Age===
Ṣāliḥ
Ibrāhīm (Abraham)


Lūṭ (Lot)  
'''820 - 870 CE (c.), Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (modern Iraq)'''
<br />
al-Kindī


Ismā'īl (Ishmael)
'''940 – 1060 CE (c.), Basra, Iraq'''
<br />
Brethren of Purity hold secret meetings


Isḥāq (Isaac)  
'''950 CE (c.), Damascus, Ikhshidid Syria (modern Syria)'''
<br />
al-Fārābī islamicises Neoplatonism


Ya'qūb (Jacob)
'''980 – 1037 CE, from Bukhara, Samanid Transoxiana (modern Uzbekistan) to Hamadan, Medieval Persia (modern Islamic Republic of Iran)'''
<br />
Ibn Sīnā conceives Proof of the Truthful


Yūsuf (Joseph)
'''1186 CE (c.), Aleppo, Ayyubid Syria (modern Syria)'''
<br />
Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi conceives Illuminationism


Ayyūb (Job)
'''1191 CE (c.), Aleppo, Ayyubid Syria (modern Syria)'''
<br />
Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi is executed by familiocratic violence


Shu'ayb
'''1200–1240 CE (c.), Mecca, Hejaz (modern Saudi Arabia) and Damascus, Ayyubid Syria (modern Syria)'''
<br />
Mūsā (Moses)
Ibn ʿArabī conceives Unity of Existence


Hārūn (Aaron)
'''1220 - 1270 CE (c.), Maragha, Medieval Persia'''
 
<br />
Dāūd (David)
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī synthesises mysticism and science
 
Sulaymān (Solomon)
 
Ilyās (Elijah)
 
Alyasa' (Elisha)
 
Yūnus (Jonah)
 
Ḏū l-Kifli (Ezekiel, Isaiah, Obadiah or Buddha)
 
Zakariyyā (Zechariah)
 
Yaḥyā (John the Baptist)
 
Muhammad al-Mahdī
 
==Part VI Material dependent unactualised rational existents: Homo sapiens==
 
===Chapter 1. Epistemic framework (Anthropology)===
 
===Chapter 2. Inductive evidence===
 
===Chapter 3. Terms and usage===
 
Human • Imperfect human • Imperfect rational animal • Insān
 
===Chapter 4. [[Mindfulness]]===
 
====4.1 Epistemic framework====
 
====4.2 Inductive evidence====
 
====4.3. Terms and usage====
 
Dhikr • God consciousness • Meditation • Salāh • Taqwā


===Chapter 5. [[Self-affirmation]]===
===Gunpowder Age===


===Chapter 6. [[Mental health]]===
Mīr Dāmād conceives atemporal origination


====6.1 [[Denialism]]====
Mulla Sadrā conceives Transcendent Theosophy


====6.2 [[Cognitive dissonance]]====
===Oil Age===


====6.3 [[Defence mechanism]]====
'''1890 CE (c.), London, Britain'''
<br />
British Foreign Office plots to exploit Persian oil


===Chapter 7. [[Physical health]]===
'''1901 CE, Tehran, Qajari Persia (modern Islamic Republic of Iran)'''
<br />
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar sells off oil exploitation rights of 75% of Persia to Britain in exchange for personal profit


===Chapter 8. [[Hygiene]]===
'''1940 CE (c.), Qom, Pahlavi Iran (modern Islamic Republic of Iran)'''
<br />
[[Ruhollah Khomeini]] begins noocratic revolution


====8.1 [[Female hygiene]]====
'''1948 CE, British-occupied Palestine, (modern Zionist-occupied Palestine)'''
<br />
Britain transfers occupation of Palestine to European Jewish Zionists


====8.2 [[Male hygiene]]====
===Information Age===


===Chapter 9. [[Fasting]]===
'''1954 CE, Qom, Pahlavi Iran (modern Islamic Republic of Iran)'''
<br />
Muhammad Husayn Ṭabāṭabāʾī establishes intra-Qur’ānic exegesis


===Chapter 10. [[Nutrition]]===
'''1971 CE (c.), Tehran, Pahlavi Iran (modern Islamic Republic of Iran)'''
<br />
Ali Shariati delivers 'Red Shi'ism vs. Black Shi'ism' lectures


===Chapter 11. [[Personal finance]]===
'''1977 CE, Southampton, Britain'''
<br />
Ali Shariati dies in suspicious circumstances


===Chapter 12. [[Philanthropy]]===
'''1977 CE, Tehran, Pahlavi Iran (modern Islamic Republic of Iran)'''
<br />
Morteza Motahhari co-founds Combatant Clergy Association


===Chapter 13. [[Homo sapiens reproduction|Reproduction]]===
'''1979 CE, Tehran, Post-Pahlavi Iran (modern Islamic Republic of Iran)'''
<br />
Ruhollah Khomeini establishes noocratic revolution


===Chapter 14. [[Death]]===
'''1979 CE, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran'''
<br />
Morteza Motahhari is assassinated by Iranian seculocratic gunfire


===Chapter 15. [[Burial]]===
'''1979 CE, Qom, Islamic Republic of Iran'''
<br />
Ruhollah Khomeini tells representatives of the tribes of Khuzestan and a delegation from Turkmen Sahra, "We Muslims are busy bickering over whether to fold or unfold our arms during prayer, while the enemy is devising ways of cutting them off."


===Chapter 16. [[Inheritance]]===
'''1979 CE (c.), Beqaa, Lebanon'''
<br />
[[Hassan Nasrallah]] begins noocratic revolution


===Chapter 17. [[Advocacy]]===
'''1982 CE, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran'''
<br />
Ali Khamenei tells 60 Minutes Australia that the worst enemy is America


==Part VII Material dependent unactualised rational existents: Homo erectus==
'''1989 CE, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran'''
<br />
Ruhollah Khomeini dies
<br />
[[Ali Khamenei]] protects noocratic revolution


==Part VIII Material dependent unactualised rational existents: Homo habilis==
'''2001 CE, New York, America'''
<br />
Unidentified pilots fly planes into iconic American sites


==Part IX Material dependent unactualised rational existents: Australopithecus==
'''2001 CE, Virginia, America'''
<br />
Senior military officer tells Wesley Clark that America has plotted to attack Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Islamic Republic of Iran


==Part X Material dependent non-rational existents==
'''2001 CE, Afghanistan'''
<br />
America and European proxies begin war on Afghanistan


===Chapter 1. Animal (Zoology)===
'''2003 CE, Iraq'''
<br />
America and European proxies begin war on Iraq


===Chapter 2. Plant (Botany)===
'''2006 CE, Washington D.C., America'''
<br />
America uses Jewish Zionist proxy Israel to attack Lebanon


===Chapter 3. Organism (Biology)===
'''2007 CE, Somalia'''
<br />
America begins its bombing war offensive on Somalia


===Chapter 4. Organ (Biology)===
'''2011 CE, Libya'''
<br />
America starts war on Libya


===Chapter 5. Tissue (Biology)===
'''2011 CE, Sudan'''
<br />
America completes split of Sudan


===Chapter 6. Cell (Biology)===
'''2015 CE, London, Great Britain'''
<br />
Britain's Channel 4 broadcasts ex-CIA spy officer's American propaganda unchallenged, including, "The thing was ideal when IS was advancing on Baghdad because Sunnis were killing Shias. That's exactly what we need... our best hope right now is to get the Sunnis and Shias fighting each other and let them bleed each other white." 


===Chapter 7. Organelle (Biology)===
'''2024 CE, Dahieh, Lebanon'''
<br />
Hassan Nasrallah is assassinated by Jewish ethnocratic airstrike


===Chapter 8. Mineral (Mineralogy)===
'''2026 CE, Islamic Republic of Iran'''
<br />
America and Jewish Zionist proxy Israel begin armed riots in Islamic Republic of Iran
<br />
America and Jewish Zionist proxy Israel begin war on Islamic Republic of Iran


===Chapter 9. Molecule (Chemistry)===
'''2026 CE, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran'''
<br />
Ali Khamenei is assassinated by American plutocratic & Jewish ethnocratic airstrikes


====9.1 Homonuclear molecule====
'''2026 CE, Chicago, America'''
====9.2 Heteronuclear molecule====
<br />
Leading American political scientist John Mearsheimer says American sanctions from 1971 to 2021 alone murdered 38 million people


===Chapter 10. Atom (Atomic physics)===


===Chapter 11. Atomic nucleus (Nuclear physics)===


===Chapter 12. Subatomic particle (Quantum mechanics)===


===Chapter 13. Quantum field (Theoretical physics)===
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