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2017)
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Abstract
In this paper, I want to compere some of the ideas of Martin Buber, a distinguished
existential philosopher, with Muhammad Husain Tabatabaei, one of the significant
figures of contemporary philosophy and Sufism in Shia Islam. In the first section, I
shall briefly introduce these two important philosophers and in the second part, I
will consider the relationship between God and the creatures form their point of
view. In this section I will show that there is a similarity between Buber’s
conception of “I-Thou” with Tabatabaei’s view on “I” as the only way toward
reality. In section three, I will compare their perspectives towards good and evil. In
the fourth section, I will explain Tabatabaei’s novel argument for an eternal reality
and I will show that how it is similar to Buber’s Eternal Thou.