The Nature of Revelation in  Allamah Majlesi's View: Principles and Foundations

Given ‘Allamah Majlesi’s religious approach to address the nature of revelation, the principles and foundations of his method in this regard are also conforming to this approach and resulting from Quranic verses and traditions, which he asserted or extracted from his own descriptions of the nature of revelation. Some of these principles are epistemological and some others are ontological. These principles are: materiality of angel, the origin of prophecy of prophets, centrality of transmitted sciences by adopting intellectual-transmitted method, authenticity of outward meanings, contenting with undifferentiated mood of divine sciences, real science in the Book and traditions, infallibility of prophets, the proof of Prophet Righteousness, and the effects of Holy Spirit on prophets. The present paper seeks to study these principles.