Kritička analiza izbaviteljskog religijskog pluralizma u gnostičkom svjetopogledu Ibn Arebija i Mevlane
The Critical Analysis of the Liberating Religious Pluralism in the Gnostic Worldview of Ibn Arabi and Mevlana

Summary/Abstract: The theory of religious pluralism represents a new approach within the sphere of religious research, and even if during the time of Ibn Arabi and Mevlana there was word of this topic, it was not entitled as religious pluralism. Despite that, the advocates of the religious pluralism, especially John Hick, considered that the Islamic Gnostics like Ibn Arabi and Mevlana shared views similar to theirs, and thereby they called upon particular accounts of these Gnostics. John Hick believes that various religions, even those which offer differing answers and reactions to divine reality, all can be the source of redemption, completing the nefs and the deliverance of the followers. By carefully analysing Ibn Arabi and Mevlana’s thought, it becomes clear that the positions of these two Muslim Gnostics who, conditionally speaking, deal with the topic of pluralism, within their fundament differ with religious pluralism that Hick speaks of, because they consider that, in fact, there is only one delivering religion which in itself encompasses all realities, as well as all the possible roads to human deliverance. That is precisely the Islamic religion which defines itself as “surrendering to God”. Whereas, others believe that other religions contain the reality and in regards to the degree of the contained reality those religions can bring their followers to the salvation and redemption. However, if the followers of other religions would gain the knowledge of the Islamic tradition and adhered to it, they would achieve higher degrees than redemption.

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