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'''Muslim''' | '''Muslim''' | ||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as Muslims in so far as they are submitters to ultimate reality | <br /> | ||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as Muslims in so far as they are submitters to ultimate reality, namely God. They submit to reality when it is presented to them at every level of reality, at every level of inquiry, using whichever epistemic framework objectively best distinguishes between truth and falsehood in each specific domain - the scientific method for the natural world, the historical-critical method for history, and logic for questions about philosophy. If future epistemic methods offer more precision, they would use use those and submit to whatever reality unfolds. | |||
'''Inner Circle Muslim''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as Inner Circle Muslims due to the prevalence of hierarchical ordering of intellects by philosophers, mystics and sages, such as muhammad, jafar al sadiq and many others. as such followers, students and disciples, believers, supporters would tactfully and strateigically be ordered in spheres gradually spanning out to the awaam or general public with an incresingly veiled, symbolic language and access to truth. | |||
'''Shi'i''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as shi'is because they believe the essence of shi'ism is to identify the individual who is the most maximally wise, just, philosophically-ground, mystical, self-sacrificial and charismatic who has the aim of establishing noocracy for global wellbeing, and once identified - to support him. | |||
'''Inner Circle Shi'i''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as inner circle shi'is for the same combined reason as inner circle above and shii above. shii imams such as muhammad al baqir and jafar sadiq had inner circle disciples, students, iniaties to whom they disclosed a higher level of reality or trusted with strategic political manoueverings. | |||
'''Red Shi'i''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as red shi'is following ali shariarti's red shis v black shia lectures which aimed to awaken the sleeping, dogmatic, sedated, apolitical shias enchanted with mere rtual and historical hagiographical glory, merely mourning ritual shias - the black shias - and to revive muhammad's goal to resist oppressors and actively work to estabilishing global justice | |||
'''Mystic''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as mystics because that's what they are and to distinguish themselves from [...].. | |||
'''Rationalist Mystic''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as rationalist mystics because they're not merely vibe mystics but identify the need to be philosophically grounded - mysticism should be grounded conceptions of reality in a constant refinement methodical working model of truth. | |||
'''Neoplatonist''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as neoplatonists because they accept many of the ideas in that school of philosophy eg .... | |||
'''Gnostic''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as gnostics because that's what they are and to distinguish themselves from [...]. | |||
'''Esotericist''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as gnostics because that's what they are and to distinguish themselves from [...]. | |||
'''Akbarian''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as akbarian because of ibn rabi (shaykh akbar) they agree with ibn arabi's wahdat al wujud. | |||
'''Twelver Shi'i''' | |||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as twelver shiis because of many are descendents of or born in to twelver shii households / raised as twelver shis or did actually believe in the longevity of the twelfth shii imam. they also share many of the venerative, devotional, cultural, ethical aspects of twelver shiism, so when in twelver shii gatherings, they will preserve the respect and build solidarity with the idea that sure - the philosopher king ideal is still in occultation, hiden from the world and all should work to make his apppearance / emergence a reality. | |||
'''Imami''' | |||
kind of same as shii and twelver shia - also because for them the shii imam is just the arabic for philosopher king. | |||
===Ja'fari=== | ===Ja'fari=== | ||
kind of same as twelver shia, imami, shii above but particularly because he aligned with much of what they accept including the intent, the jurusprudential, mystical, secret politics, intelligence, underground teaching, greatness of jafar and also because even using hcm, his life and teachers are probably the easiest to reconstruct and have access to so it serves as a useful marker. | |||
===Khomeinist=== | ===Khomeinist=== | ||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as khomeinist because he spawned the revival era, revolution, resistance, bringing the muhammadan movement back to life. many have been / were contemporaries - it's today's era, - his emphasis on muslim unity , not sqabbling over neglibible jurisprudentual or even belief differences because there are far greater geopolitical challenges - they venerate him on his philosophy, politics, geopolitics, success, anti-impeialism- anti ethnosupremacy inc israel and zionism, suport for oppressed inc palestiians, black people, victims of western hegemony, etc - they venreate his charisma, his bi-domainal genius, his willingness to abandon dogmatic jurusprudence, his mysticism and poetry and his commitment to the many challenges of resistance economy. | |||
===Sunni=== | ===Sunni=== | ||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as sunni in so far as they are committed to continue the sunnah of muhammad, namely charismatic, poetic, philosophically grounded, mystical, intellectually-graded, ecunemical, socio-political revolution. | |||
===Salafi=== | ===Salafi=== | ||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as salafi as cute-polemical gestueres mainly for buidling rapport with salafis in order to dmeonstrate that firstly not all the salaf agreed with one another on even tradiaitonally significant beliefs and practices, but also to demonstrate that some salaf would have agreed with certain beliefs and practices or been more tolerant of rationalist muslims that salafis would. | |||
===Theist=== | ===Theist=== | ||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as theists to distinguish them from atheists but to keep the discussion on necessary existence, fundamental reality so that teh atheists doesn't get distracted by all the baggage of isalm, religion, muslims because of whatver the relebvant psychological pheneonomen is where humans often fear the entailment of a discussion rather than focusing on the logic that is actually being discussed. | |||
===Christian=== | ===Christian=== | ||
Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as chstiritans in so far as they venerate christ as the philosopher king of his time and while the historical jesus didn't have primary influence, he did have secondary influence and ratiolaist muslims want to continue what he attempted - self sacrifical charistmaitc, mystical revolutionary social political movement for global wellbing. PLato conceived philosopher kind. PLato Conceived it, Jesus tried it, muhammad achieved it, khomeini revived it. | |||
==Cognitive dispositions== | ==Cognitive dispositions== | ||