al-Shawahid al-rububiyya

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al-Shawahid al-rububiyya is a major philosophical work by Mulla Sadra that expounds his metaphysical doctrines, especially the primacy of existence and the gradation of being, within the framework of Islamic philosophy.

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instanceOf Islamic philosophical text
philosophical work
aim systematization of Sadrian metaphysics
author Mulla Sadra NERFINISHED
century 17th century
concerns nature of God as Necessary Being
relation between contingent beings and Necessary Being
structure of reality as degrees of existence
doctrineExpounded gradation of being (tashkik al-wujud)
primacy of existence (asalat al-wujud) NERFINISHED
relationship between essence and existence
substantial motion
unity of being
framework Islamic philosophical theology
genre metaphysical treatise
influencedBy Ibn Arabi NERFINISHED
Ibn Sina NERFINISHED
Illuminationist philosophy
Peripatetic philosophy NERFINISHED
Sufi metaphysics
Suhrawardi NERFINISHED
language Arabic
mainTopic Islamic philosophy NERFINISHED
gradation of being
metaphysics
primacy of existence
partOf corpus of Mulla Sadra NERFINISHED
philosophicalPosition being is graded in intensity and perfection
existence is ontologically prior to essence
philosophicalSchool Sadrian philosophy
philosophicalTradition Transcendent Theosophy NERFINISHED
region Safavid Iran NERFINISHED
relatedWork al-Asfar al-arbaʿa NERFINISHED
religiousContext Islam
Shiʿi Islam NERFINISHED
studiedIn Iran NERFINISHED
Shiʿi seminaries
subject cosmology
epistemology
ontology
theology
usedIn seminary curricula in Islamic philosophy

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Mulla Sadra notableWork al-Shawahid al-rububiyya