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 al-Din al-Shirazi
surface form: 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 Empire
surface form: Safavid Iran
dateOfBirth c. 1571
dateOfDeath c. 1640
denomination Twelver Shia
surface form: Twelver Shia Islam
era Safavid Empire
surface form: Safavid era
ethnicGroup Persian
field Islamic philosophy
Sufism
kalam
founderOf Transcendent Theosophy
honorificTitle Mulla Sadra self-link
influenced Qom seminary philosophy
Shia theology
later Iranian philosophy
influencedBy Ibn Arabi
Avicenna
surface form: Ibn Sina

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)
Wahdat al-wujud
surface form: primacy of existence (asalat 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 Suhrawardiyya
surface form: Illuminationism (influenced)

Peripatetic philosophy (influenced)
Transcendent Theosophy
placeOfBirth Shiraz, Iran
surface form: Shiraz
placeOfDeath Basra
region Persia
religion Islam
subjectOf Mulla Sadra self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mulla Sadra (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article)
taughtAt Kahak near Qom
Shiraz, Iran
surface form: Shiraz
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 self-link
Mulla Sadra subjectOf Mulla Sadra self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mulla Sadra (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article)
Suhrawardi influenced Mulla Sadra