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1,586,000, with their presence ontology, and anthropology.
extending from southern Yoruba philosophers investigate
Nigeria to the Weme River and the physical and spiritual
into the Atakpame region worlds through three key
(World Data, 2023). Yoruba elements: Ori, Ifa (Orunmila),
communities are also found in aphorisms, and proverbs.
Togo, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and
the diaspora (Akyeampong, 2000; 5. Transcendental
Aribidesi, 2008). Wisdom
As articulated by Prince Yemi Al- Ḥikmat al-Mutaʾāliyah
D. Ogunyemi (2018), Yoruba (Transcendental Wisdom) was
Philosophy is a narrative, pioneered by Ṣadr al-Dīn
cultural, and folk philosophy Shīrāzi, known as Mulla
that explores the nature and Ṣadrā. The term Ṣadrāi refers
origins of both physical and to Mulla Ṣadrā's disciples and
spiritual realms. It comprises students interested in his
narratives and customs aimed at philosophical methods. Before
understanding the universe's al-Ḥikmat al-Mutaʾāliyah, four
essence and causes (Ogunyemi, major schools of thought
2015). While it is a branch of existed in the Islamic world,
African philosophy, it specifically namely Peripateticism, Illuminative
centers on the Yoruba people, philosophy, Mysticism, and
Mulla
their environment, and their Kalām (theology). approach
Ṣadrā's
unique
existence.
Practiced by Yoruba scholars, instigated a significant scientific
it acknowledges Oduduwa as revolution in Islamic philosophy,
the founder of the Yoruba shaping its history, now recognized
nation and philosophy (Agai, as the Transcendental Wisdom
2015; Kamau, 1976). Topics school (Motahari, 1996).
encompass literature, folklore, The term al- Ḥikmat al-
proverbs, love, wisdom, religion, Mutaʾāliyah was originally
metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, coined by Avicenna in al-'Ishārāt
for his philosophical school,
