Mulla Sadra

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Mulla Sadra was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher best known for founding the Transcendent Theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya), which synthesized peripatetic, illuminationist, and mystical thought into a profound metaphysical system centered on the primacy of existence.

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instanceOf Islamic philosopher
Persian philosopher
Shia philosopher
person
philosopher
alsoKnownAs Sadr ad-Din Muhammad Shirazi
Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi
Sadr al-Muta’allihin
birthName Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
century 17th century
countryOfCitizenship Safavid Iran
linked to: Safavid Empire
dateOfBirth c. 1571
dateOfDeath c. 1640
denomination Twelver Shia Islam
linked to: Twelver Shia
era Safavid era
linked to: Safavid Empire
ethnicGroup Persian
field Islamic philosophy
Sufism
kalam
founderOf Transcendent Theosophy
honorificTitle Mulla Sadra
influenced Qom seminary philosophy
Shia theology
later Iranian philosophy
influencedBy Ibn Arabi
Ibn Sina
linked to: Avicenna

Mir Damad
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Suhrawardi
mainInterest Quranic exegesis
epistemology
metaphysics
mysticism
ontology
philosophy of religion
movement Transcendent Theosophy
nativeLanguage Persian
notableIdea bodily resurrection with imaginal body
gradation of existence (tashkik al-wujud)
primacy of existence (asalat al-wujud)
linked to: Wahdat al-wujud

substantial motion (al-haraka al-jawhariyya)
unity of the intellect and the intelligible
notableWork Tafsir al-Qur’an (Quranic commentaries)
al-Asfar al-Arba‘a
al-Hikma al-muta‘aliya fi-l-asfar al-‘aqliyya al-arba‘a
al-Mabda’ wa’l-ma‘ad
al-Shawahid al-rububiyya
occupation Quran commentator
mystic
philosopher
theologian
philosophicalPosition existentialism (Islamic, primacy of existence)
philosophicalSchool Illuminationism (influenced)
linked to: Suhrawardiyya

Peripatetic philosophy (influenced)
Transcendent Theosophy
placeOfBirth Shiraz
linked to: Shiraz, Iran
placeOfDeath Basra
region Persia
religion Islam
subjectOf Mulla Sadra (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article)
linked to: Mulla Sadra
taughtAt Kahak near Qom
Shiraz
linked to: Shiraz, Iran
writingLanguage Arabic
Persian

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Ibn Arabi influenced Mulla Sadra
Islamic philosophy majorFigure Mulla Sadra
Persian culture notablePhilosopher Mulla Sadra
Henry Corbin influencedBy Mulla Sadra
Akbarian school influenced Mulla Sadra
Akbarian school hasKeyFigure Mulla Sadra
Mulla Sadra honorificTitle Mulla Sadra
Mulla Sadra subjectOf Mulla Sadra (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article)
linked to: Mulla Sadra
Suhrawardi influenced Mulla Sadra