University of Qom Journal of Philosophical Theological Research 1735-9791 20 3 2018 09 23 An Investigation into Sadra and Suhravardi’s Views regarding the World of Ideas An Investigation into Sadra and Suhravardi’s Views regarding the World of Ideas 71 90 1201 10.22091/pfk.2018.1201 FA Mahbobeh Vahdatipoor * Ph. D. Student Transcendent Philosophy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad- International campus Alireza Kohansal ** Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad 0000-0002-6216-9763 Sayyed Morteza Hoseyni Shahrudi Professor of Philosophy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Journal Article 2018 12 14 The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from determinism to delegation‌‌. By employing a novel criterion to distinguish between various divine actions in the world, the current paper attempts to present and assess Allamah Tabatabaei’s approach as an Islamic determinist philosopher in regard to the topic and seeks to lay the groundwork for offering solutions in both deterministic and indeterministic models by revisiting the causal homogeneity principle in order to find a way out of dominant intellectual impediments‌‌. To that end, the paper serves to show that by extending the concept of causal homogeneity within a deterministic framework, one can attest to the direct interference of immaterial entities in the material world, whereas by resting upon the ‘principle of causal necessity’ and a particular attitude towards the principle of homogeneity within an indeterministic framework, one can defend the interference of immaterial causes in order to realize one of the possible probabilities‌‌.  The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from determinism to delegation‌‌. By employing a novel criterion to distinguish between various divine actions in the world, the current paper attempts to present and assess Allamah Tabatabaei’s approach as an Islamic determinist philosopher in regard to the topic and seeks to lay the groundwork for offering solutions in both deterministic and indeterministic models by revisiting the causal homogeneity principle in order to find a way out of dominant intellectual impediments‌‌. To that end, the paper serves to show that by extending the concept of causal homogeneity within a deterministic framework, one can attest to the direct interference of immaterial entities in the material world, whereas by resting upon the ‘principle of causal necessity’ and a particular attitude towards the principle of homogeneity within an indeterministic framework, one can defend the interference of immaterial causes in order to realize one of the possible probabilities‌‌.  https://pfk.qom.ac.ir/article_1201_a9865be5a2a7817c399e198f3c2f97ca.pdf