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The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect (Arabic:الحكمة المتعالية في الاسفار العقلية الاربعة; Hikmat al-muta‘aliya fi-l-asfar al-‘aqliyya al-arba‘a), known as Four Journeys, is an extended compendium of Islamic philosophy written by the 17th century Islamic scholar, Mulla Sadra, In which he attempted to reach Sufism and prove ...
The third and fourth volumes were concerned with chapters of Baqarah. Sadra interpreted the 45 verse, referring to meaning and concept of transmigration and its explanations. He mentioned the aims of the verse. [9] In the fifth volume, Sadra interpreted two eminent verses, namely Ayat al-Kursi and Ayat an-Noor. He reminded those who do not care ...
Mulla Sadra was born in Shiraz, Iran, to a notable family of court officials in 1571 or 1572, [9] In Mulla Sadra's time, the Safavid dynasty governed over Iran. Safavid kings granted independence to Fars province, which was ruled by the king's brother, Mulla Sadra's father, Khwajah Ibrahim Qavami, who was a knowledgeable and extremely faithful politician.
Another central concept of Mulla Sadra's philosophy is the theory of "substantial motion" (al-harakat al-jawhariyyah), which is "based on the premise that everything in the order of nature, including celestial spheres, undergoes substantial change and transformation as a result of the self-flow (fayd) and penetration of being (sarayan al-wujud) which gives every concrete individual entity its ...
The Wisdom of the Throne: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra James Winston Morris (born 1949) is an American Islamic theologian, currently a professor in the Department of Theology at Boston College .
Muhamrnad ibn Ibrahim ibn Yahya Oawarni Shirazi, entitled Sadr al-Din and also Mulla Sadra (in the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent simply Sadra) as well as Sadr al-muta'allihin, "foremost among the theosophers", or called simply Akhund by his disciples, was born in Shiraz in 979-980/1571-72 into an influential and well known family, his father having been the governor of the province of Fars.
He wrote a book titled al-Asfār al-Arbaʻah meaning 'the four journeys', referring to the soul's journey back to Allah. He developed his book into an entire school of thought; he did not refer to al-Asfār as a philosophy but as "wisdom." Sadra taught how one could be illuminated or given wisdom until becoming a sage. [19]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... (Book of Precious Stones), he is "the most exact of experimental scientists", ... For Mulla Sadra, "existence precedes the ...