Abstract

Guardianship or wilayah is one of the issues discussed in all branches of Islamic sciences. Jurisprudents, commentators, theologians and gnostics have, each, talked about guardianship and its related issues in a way. Although they have viewed this topic from different standpoints, there are some commonalities among their ideas. The gnostic approach has a profound view of this issue, and a major part of books written on theoretical gnosis are devoted to clarifying it. In this paper, it has been tried to explore Mulla Sadra's view of guardianship, which is mainly of a gnostic nature.