The aim of this article is to introduce a political science based on transcendent philosophy under the title of "Existential Political Science." For this, the present research claims that existential political science, nourishing from transcendent philosophy, presents a new form of political science that is distinct from political science stemmed from schools of "social essentialism" and "social nominalism."
Existential political science is based on the approach of the primacy of existence (aṣālat al-wujūd) and exhibits the possibility of establishing a political science grounded in this doctrine. To examine this claim, the paper investigates the relationship between constructed matters and real ones, showing that existential political science addresses political issues from the perspective of this relation.
The discussion employs the common methodology of Islamic philosophy concerning i‘tibārī (conventional or constructed) matters. One of the accomplishments of this article is the expansion of transcendent philosophy into the field of political science. The findings of this article can contribute to theoretical developments in Islamic humanities and indigenous political science.