For mulla sadra, philosophy pursues the summum bonum of enlightened engagement marifa and goodly action, worthy not only of the aristotelian but also the pious muslim scholar. I have found useful fazlur rahman the philosophy of mulla sadra, albany ny, suny press, 1975. Sadradin shirazi 15711640, known also as mulla sadra, spoke of the primacy of being and promoted a new ontology, founding a new epistemology. Revelation, intellectual intuition and reason in the philosophy of mulla sadra. Full text of philosophy of mulla sadra and its influence. This paper is an attempt to critically analyse some of the versions of the oneness of existence wahdat alwujud 1. The philosophy of revelation in mulla sadra, elaborates on some of the central concepts of the iranian shiite philosopher mulla sadra. Mulla sadra s metaphilosophy was based on existence as the sole constituent of reality, and rejected any role for quiddities or essences in the external world.
Finally, the shaikhie school at kerman, during the last century and even today, has continued to contribute in a profound and original manner to the theory of visionary knowledge, to what we might call visionary optics. An enigmatic figure of the persian islamic world, mulla sadras views could be described as a philosophy influnenced by aristotle and avicenna ibn sina, obviosly. Soul from the perspective of mulla sadras philosophy. Library of congress cataloging in publication data wi1l be found on the last printed. This book examines and analyses the legitimacy of the widely held claim that mulla sadras philosophy alhikmah almutaaliyyah is a synthesis of principles and doctrines drawn from revelation wahy, gnosis irfanmarifah and discursive philosophy alhikmah albahthiyyah. Dec 01, 2015 translation of sadras philosophical corpus, the act of being. Mulla sadra and the unity and multiplicity of existence. The philosophy of revelation in mulla sadra zone books christian jambet, jeff fort on. Full text of mulla sadras transcendent philosophy see other formats. Papers presented at the second world congress on mulla sadra. As the following pages show, sadra s system, despite certain inner difficulties, is a highly original one revealing the extraordinary intellectual.
As the following pages show, sadras system, despite certain inner difficulties, is a highly original one revealing the extraordinary intellectual. His main work is the transcendent philosophy of the four journeys of the intellect, or simply four journeys. Mulla sadra saw the world as moving ceaselessly in an uninterrupted revolution of its substances, in which. He was, like mulla sadra, among the few sages who were masters of both esoteric and exoteric doctrines, and of philosophy and gnosis.
Revelation, intellectual intuition and reason in the. He describes the philosophical turn, ontological difference, becoming, and nothingness in the ontology of mulla sadra and martin heidegger. The mulla sadra ontology advocates metaphysics of the being, meaning the priority of existence in respect of the essence, the unity of being as the reality hidden behind individual forms of existence, considers the gradation of the being as the ontological structure of all beings, reveals the man as a being intheworld who in death tempts its. Exploring the thought of mulla sadra shirazi, an iranian shiite of the. His teachings, in the history of islamic philosophy, 2 vols. D, and the peripatetic philosopher, nasir aldin tusi 579672 a. Knowledge and immortality in spinoza and mulla sadra. Mulla sadra on existence, intellect, and intuition, oxford. Mulla sadra was also knowledgeable in the deepest sense in the schools of islamic philosophical thoughts before him. Mulla sadra is thought by some to be the single most important and influential philosopher in the muslim world in the last four hundred years.
Not only have human beings delved into this subject, but god himself has. Mulla sadra on existence, intellect, and intuition ibrahim kalin this study looks at how the seventeenthcentury philosopher sadr aldin alshirazi, known as mulla sadra, attempted to reconcile the three major forms of knowledge in islamic philosophical discourses. He explores the philosophical turn, ontological difference, becoming, and nothingness in the ontology of mulla sadra and martin heidegger. Full text of mulla sadra s transcendent philosophy see other formats. This book examines and analyses the legitimacy of the widely held claim that mulla sadras philosophy alhikmah almutaaliyyah is a synthesis of principles and doctrines drawn from revelation wahy, gnosis irfanma. Mohammed rustom 2010 journal of islamic philosophy. Since this dualism is a mental factor, the dynamic character of being.
Mulla sadra, as a student at isfahan, had been taught by or 178 6 the philosophy of mulla sadra came under the influence of such thinkers as mir muhammad baqir astarabadi mir damad, shaikh baha uddin amuli shaikh bahai and mir abul qasim findiriski. Pdf deleuzian theology and the immanence of the act of being. Pdf the philosophy of mulla sadra being a summary of his. Mulla sadras philosophy ambitiously synthesized avicennism, shahab aldin suhrawardis illuminationist philosophy, ibn arabis sufi metaphysics, and the theology of the ashari school and twelvers. Mulla sadras life and philosophy, transcendent philosophy, pp. More generally, islamic philosophy employs an ontology of the real that is important to the destiny of metaphysics. To this the work of mulla sadra shirazi seventeenth century in ispahan and shiraz provides the necessary complement. That event gave me the opportunity to compare mulla sadras attitude towards existence with that of thomas aquinas, using henri corbins. Full text of philosophy of mulla sadra and its influence on. Mulla sadras metaphilosophy was based on existence as the sole constituent of reality, and rejected any role for quiddities or essences in the external world. Since this dualism is a mental factor, the dynamic character of being should be. Existence was for him a single unity and an internally articulated dynamic process, the unique source of both unity and diversity. Another central concept of mulla sadras philosophy is the theory of substantial motion arabic.
Pdf the philosophy of mulla sadra being a summary of his book. Investigation in the view of mulla sadra shiraz husain agha faculty of philosophy, almustafa international university, qom, i. The ontology of mulla sadr shirazi faculty of humanities. He knew peripatetic mashshai philosophy intimately, especially the thought of ibn sina, upon whose shifa he wrote a major commentary. In a unique parallel analysis, muhammad kamal delves into the most controversial subjects of islamic and western existential philosophy. This research appears at how the seventeenthcentury thinker sadr aldin alshirazi, generally known as mulla sadra, tried to reconcile the three main types of information in islamic philosophical discourses. The philosophy of revelation in mulla sadra, trans. He, however, ignores the fact that mulla sadras doctrine of the identity of subject and object constitutes the final step which the persian intellect took towards complete monism iqbal 1908, p. Sadr aldin shirazi mulla sadra this chapter has been written with the invaluable help of hajj mohammad hussain tabatabai, one of the leading authorities on the school of mulla sadra in iran today, the author of the 20volume quranic commentary almizan and the editor and commentator of the new edition of the asfar. Mulla sadra was the sole child born into a courtly family in shiraz, southern iran, in around 979 ah157172.
The present work aims at a critical and analytical statement of the philosophy of sadr aldin alshirazi known as multa sadra d. As already mentioned, hajis doctrines are in reality those of mulla sadras condensed and systematized into a more orderly form. Shiism as the state religion or official school of islamic law in. First, as we discussed above philosophy is a way of life, a lived mode of being and a process that involves spiritual exercises. Mulla sadras philosophical system is built upon the findings of earlier masters, and. Dec 01, 2006 the act of being, nourished by the sufism of ibn alarabi, the philosophy of classical islam, the thought inherited from the greeks, and the esoteric and mystical dimension of shiism, seeks to make sense of this intuition of the real. The philosophy of revelation in mulla sadra by christian jambet.
Pdf the depiction of mulla sadras philosophy could be best out by referring to his magnum opus, alhikmah almutaaliyah, usually referred to as. Jambets contribution lies in his tripartite division of the contribution of. Iran the relation of reason and religion is a very important topic indeed. Through analysing the ontological enterprises of sadra and heidegger, kamal shows how they both held that being is the sole reality, and how both stood in opposition to platos metaphysics. The philosophy of revelation in mulla sadra, preveo jeff fort, new york. The relation of religion and reason in the transcendent. Mulla sadra also spelt molla sadra or mollasadra, also called sadr aldin alshirazi or sadrol mota allehin c. Fayard 2002, this comprehensive presentation of muhammad ibn ibrahim sadr aldin shirazi mulla sadra will help western philosophers and theologians to come to appreciate the trajectory of islamic thought which extends beyond the stereotype prevailing in the west.
The theory of visionary knowledge in islamic philosophy. Jambet is a former maoist french philosopher who remains an. Mulla sadra was a master of all science of his time. An enigmatic figure of the persian islamic world, mulla sadras views could be described as a philosophy influnenced by aristotle and avicenna ibn sina, obviosly based on quranic revelation and shiite world view. The philosophy of mulla sadra being a summary of his book alhikmah almutaaliyah fi alasfar alaqliyyah alarbaah article pdf available november 2009 with 2,538 reads how we. The fact that corbin left the realm of western philosophy to devote himself to islamic philosophy. D, were among the wellknown figures of these periods of evolution of philosophy in iran and the islamic world. Islamic law, hadith, theology, and philosophy, completely turn ing his back on. Hadi gerami islamicate intellectual history, brill, 9789004345645 the act of being.
Mulla sadra project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. It has always preoccupied the minds of thinkers from times immemorial. The great chain of being dairat alwujud, of which sadra has given one of the most sophisticated expositions in the history of philosophy, is thus construed as a unified structure that allows for a selfregulating dynamism on the one hand, and the perpetual presence of the creative act of god, on the other. A bright young man, his interest in intellectual pursuits was indulged by his father, and he moved first to qazvin in ah1591 and then to isfahan in 1006 ah1597, successive capitals of the safavid empire, to pursue his study of philosophy, theology. To philosophise is to cultivate piety, since the end of philosophy is the higher pious life, a reflection of a hermetic ideal trope. Durham etheses mulla sadra and the mindbody problem. Mulla sadra on existence, intellect, and intuition. More generally, islamic philosophy employs an ontology of the real that is important to the destiny of metaphysics, an ontology that belongs to our own universe of thought. Mulla sadras ontology is an important philosophical turn and contribution to the understanding of the development of muslim philosophy and thought. Mulla sadra s philosophy ambitiously synthesized avicennism, shahab aldin suhrawardis illuminationist philosophy, ibn arabis sufi metaphysics, and the theology of the ashari school and twelvers. Journal of islamic philosophy 2010 111 or modes of gods selfpraise or. It seeks to argue that according to mulla sadra, the concept of existence 2 is one, and its extramental reality, then, must also be one, because one single concept cannot be obtained from a number of realities existence.