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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
==Terminology==
 
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.
 
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.
 
As a result, Rationalist Muslims assume a wide variety of seemingly conflicting names and employ them contextually, including:
 
===Muslim===
 
===Inner Circle Muslim===
 
===Shi'i===
 
===Inner Circle Shi'i===
 
===Red Shi'i===
 
===Mystic===
 
===Rationalist Mystic===
 
===Neoplatonist===
 
===Gnostic===
 
===Esotericist===
 
===Essentialist===
 
===Akbarian===
 
===Twelver Shi'i===
 
===Imami===
 
===Ja'fari===
 
===Khomeinist===
 
===Sunni===
 
===Salafi===
 
===Theist===
 
===Monotheist===
 
===Divine Simplicist===
 
===Christian===
 
==Cognitive dispositions==
 
===1. [[The Law of Identity]]===
 
“whatever is, is; whatever is not, is not.”
 
Every entity or proposition is self-identical and distinct from its negation.
 
===2. [[The Law of Non-Contradiction]]===
 
“nothing can both be and not be in the same respect.”
 
Nothing can both be and not be in the same respect.
 
===3. [[The Principle of Sufficient Reason (minimal intelligibility form)]]===
 
“every real state of affairs has some reason or ground.”
 
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.
 
===4. [[Recognition of Contingency]]===
 
“some things exist but could, in principle, not have existed.”
 
There exist beings whose non-existence involves no contradiction.
 
===5. [[Denial of Vicious Circularity and Infinite Explanatory Regress]]===
 
Explanation cannot be self-grounding or infinitely deferred; every chain of dependence must terminate in something self-sufficient.
 
==Conative dispositions==
 
===1. Preference for truth over comfort===
 
===2. Desire for personal development===
 
===3. Desire for the maximisation of global wellbeing===
 
===4. Desire to actively participate in the maximisation of global wellbeing===
 
===5. Tendency for self-sacrifice===
 
==The Rational Entailments==
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
===1) Metaphysical rationalism===
 
===2) Foundationalism===
 
===3) Epistemic parsimony===
 
===4) Ontological parsimony===
===5) Primacy of [[Consciousness]]===
 
===6) Analytic idealism===
 
===7) Oneness of consciousness===
 
Monism • Nondualism
 
===8) Ontological priority===
 
===9) Gradation of consciousness===
 
Gradation of existence • Gradation of reality • Tashkīk al-wujūd
 
===10) Meta consciousness===
 
Ahura Mazda • Allāh • Aten • Baha • Brahman • 'Ēl • Father • God • God the father • Necessary existent • Necessary existentiator • Necessary reality • Pure consciousness • Shangdi • The divine • The One • Unconditioned reality • Vishnu • Waheguru • Wājib al-wujūd • Yahweh
 
===11) Necessary simplicity===
 
Al-Basāṭah al-ilāhiyyah • Divine simplicity • Monotheism • Oneness • Oneness of Allah • Oneness of God • Tawhīd
 
===12) Absolute necessary simplicity===
 
===13) Conscientiation ex conscientia===
 
Badā'a • Creatio ex deo • Origination
 
===14) Necessitarianism===
 
ʿAdl • Divine justice
 
===15) Eternalism / [[Eternal Creation]]===
 
===16) Rule of one===
 
===17) First conscientiate===
 
First creation • First intellect • First light • Image of God • Imago dei • Mashīyya • Nūr Muhammadiyya • Ontologically first dependent existent • Pen • Perfect creation • Qalam • Universal intellect
 
===18) Intermediary conscientiates===
 
Angels • Immaterial existents • Malāʾika
 
===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
 
===20) B-theory of time===
 
Tenseless theory of time
 
===21) Compatibilism===
 
Divine Decree • Divine Predestination • Illusion of Libertarian Free Will • Predestination • Qadar • Soft determinism
 
===22) Perdurantism===
 
===23) Physical empiricism===
 
Empirical method • Scientific method
 
===24) [[Mindfulness]]===
 
Dhikr • God consciousness • Meditation • Salāh • Taqwā
 
===25) Self-cultivation===
 
===26) Superiority of intellect===
 
===27) Rational self-governance===
 
===28) Mysticism===
 
'Ibādah • Islām • Servitude • Submission • Worship
 
===29) Prayer===
 
Ṣalāh
 
===30) Fasting===
 
Ṣawm
 
===31) Charity===
 
Almsgiving • Zakāh
 
===32) Pilgrimage===
 
Ḥajj
 
===33) [[Resistance]]===
 
Discipline • Exertion • Fighting • Jihād • Striving • Struggle
 
===34) Heightened consciousness===
 
Altered state of consciousness • Anubhava • Enlightenment • Henosis • Ilhām • Nirvana • Noetic mystical experience • Nubuwwah • Perfect knowledge acquisition • Prophethood • Samadhi • Revelation • Wahī
 
===35) Gradation of Intellect===
 
Cognitive heterogeneity
 
===36) [[Local cultivation]]===
 
Messengership • Risālah
===37) Global cultivation / [[Maximisation of Personal & Global Wellbeing (Constrained)]]===
 
===38) Noocracy===
 
Imāmah • Perfect manhood • Philosopher kingship • Technocracy
 
===39) [[Philosopher King]]===
 
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
 
===40) Intellectual Accommodation===
 
Tawriyyah
 
===41) Intellectual Dissimulation===
 
Taqīyyah
 
===42) Cognitive reframing===
 
===43) Motifs and Imagery===
 
Motifs—light, ascent, circle, garden, path—translate abstract truths into memorable forms that shape imagination and action. Repetition builds identity; symbol stabilises norms.
 
===44) Mythos for Most===
 
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.
 
===45) Repurposing Myths and Legends===
 
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.
 
===46) Metanarratives===
 
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.
 
===47) Religion===
 
===48) Religious beliefs===
 
Arkān al-īmān • Pillars of faith • 'Uṣūl al-dīn
 
===49) Religious laws===
 
Branches of religion • Furūʿ al-dīn • Pillars of practice
 
===50) Need for Dogma===
 
“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.
 
===51) Confessional identity===
 
Shahāda • Testimony of Faith
 
===51) Need to Encourage and Control Behaviour===
 
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.
 
===Hagiography===
 
Apotheosis • Deification • Divinisation • [[Ghulāt]] / Ghuluw • Heroisation • Legendary accretion • Mythicisation • Myth-making • Mythologisation • Mythopoeia • Sacralisation • Tawallā
 
===Heresiography===
 
Tabarrā
 
==History==
 
===Classical antiquity===
 
Socrates holds dialogues
 
Plato conceives Theory of Ideas
 
Plato conceives Theory of Soul
 
Plato conceives Form of the Good
 
Plato conceives Allegory of the Cave
 
Plato conceives The Philosopher King
 
Aristotle develops logic
 
[[Jesus]] begins noocratic revolution
 
Jesus is arrested by Jewish ethnocratic demonisation
 
Jesus is executed by Roman timocratic crucifixion
 
===Late antiquity===
 
Plotinus conceives The One
 
Plotinus conceives Emanation by the One
 
Plotinus establishes Neoplatonism
 
Proclus popularises Platonism
 
Pseudo-Dionysius symbolises Neoplatonism
 
[[Muḥammad]] begins noocratic revolution
 
Muḥammad establishes noocratic revolution
 
Muḥammad dies in suspicious circumstances
 
[[Ali]] begins noocratic revolution 
 
'Uthmān ibn 'Affān is assassinated by sword
 
Ali establishes noocratic revolution 
 
Ali is assassinated by sword
 
Hasan ibn Ali protects noocratic revolution
 
Hasan ibn Ali is assassinated by poison
 
Husayn ibn Ali begins noocratic revolution
 
Husayn ibn Ali is assassinated by sword in Karbala
 
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq begins noocratic revolution
 
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq is assassinated by poison
 
===Islamic Golden Age===
 
al-Kindī
 
al-Fārābī Islamicises Neoplatonism
 
Brethren of Purity establishes secret society
 
Ibn Sina conceives Proof of the Truthful
 
Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi conceives Illuminationism
 
Ibn ʿArabī conceives Unity of Existence
 
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī synthesises mysticism and science
 
===Gunpowder Age===
 
Mīr Dāmād conceives atemporal origination
 
Mulla Sadrā conceives Transcendent Theosophy
 
===Oil Age===
 
Muhammad Husayn Ṭabāṭabāʾī establishes intra-Qur’ānic exegesis
 
Morteza Motahhari co-founds the Combatant Clergy Association
 
Morteza Motahhari is assassinated by Iranian seculocratic gunfire
 
Ali Shariati writes Red Shi'sm vs. Black Shi'ism
 
Ali Shariati dies in suspicious circumstances
 
===Information Age===
 
[[Ruhollah Khomeini]] begins noocratic revolution
 
[[Ruhollah Khomeini]] establishes noocratic revolution
 
[[Hassan Nasrallah]] begins noocratic revolution
 
[[Ali Khamenei]] protects noocratic revolution
 
Hassan Nasrallah is assassinated by Jewish ethnocratic airstrike
 
Ali Khamenei is assassinated by American plutocratic & Jewish ethnocratic airstrikes
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