ファフルッディーン・ラーズィーのミゥラージュ解釈
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Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606/1209), an Asharite theologian after Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111), is a thinker who is influenced by philosophy and also has an inclination to mysticism. The author tries to clarify the role of the interpretation of miraj in his thought by examining of his Quran exegesis (tafsir), Mafatih al-Ghayb.Miraj means the ascension of Prophet Muhammad which is based on Quran 17:1, and there are many traditions (hadith) of miraj. A later tradition says that Muhammad made the nocturnal journey (isra) from Mecca to Jerusalem riding on Buraq with Gabriel, and ascended to the presence of God, by passing through seven heavens, meeting a prophet at each heaven.In the interpretation of Quran 17:1, Râzî proves that the journey of Muhammad was made with both soul and body and it was not a mere vision. In the interpretation of Fatihah, on the other hand, he interprets miraj as follows: Muhammad reached God after passing through the two material worlds, the earthly world and the heavenly one, and also experienced spiritual miraj, that is, the spiritual ascension from the material world to the invisible one (spiritual world), and to the further invisible world (God). This spiritual miraj means the ascendant process of a soul which aims at annihilation (fana), and man can experience spiritual miraj through mystical exercises.This interpretation of spiritual miraj is based on his classification of beings. He classifies created beings into that which occupies space, that which resides in subject that occupies space and that which does not occupy space nor does reside in subject that occupies space.It seems that Razi tries to take mysticism into his cosmology which mixes the theological atomism and the philosophical ontology through his interpretation of miraj.