in Mulla Sadra’s Philosophical Thought Amanallah Alizadeh Faculty of Philosophy, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, I. R. Iran The present writing is trying to explain the essence of Faith in Mulla Sa-dra’s philosophical thought. For Him, “He is the Truth and the rest are His manifestations. There is yet no historical evidence that he ever studied with Mir Findiriski (d. 1640/1), the other leading intellectual of the time. Sadradin Shirazi (1571-1640), known also as Mulla Sadra, spoke of the primacy of Being and promoted a new ontology, founding a new epistemology. The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra (Studies in Islamic philosophy and science) [Rahman, Fazlur] on Amazon.com. Thus, essences are not immutable. [18], Janan Izadi believes that Hikmat Muta’aliyah is of a metalanguage according to Mehdi Haeri Yazdi. God's capacity to measure the intensity of Existential Reality by measuring Causal Dynamics' and their Relationship to their Origin, as opposed to knowing their effects, provided the Islamically-acceptable framework for God's Judgement of Reality without being tainted by its Particulars. On this ground, the real horse can give you a ride while the universal horse in the mind is incapable of that because real particularity, external properties and real effects are owing to being and cannot be in the mind. Mir Damad was a master of both the Peripatetic (Aristotelian) and Illuminationist schools of Islamic philosophy. Similar to his past philosophical masters Ibn Sina (d. 1037) and Suhrawardi (d. 1191), but unaware of Ibn Rushd‘s (d.1198) criticism of Neoplatonism in Islamic philosophy, Mulla Sadra relied on Neoplatonic precepts which had been taken for Aristotelian ideas by preceding philosophers. His argument is based on the transcendental inclusiveness of the Absolute Being. thesis . in English has eclipsed Fazlur Rahman’s The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra published over thirty years ago, BOOK REVIEWS 321 important works have extended his analyses of Sadra’s novel and profound integration of insights harvested from Peripatetic, Illuminationist, mystical, and Shi‘ite sources. Mulla Sadra's ontology is … The inherent inclination toward reunion with the Active Intellect, that is, the realm of Divine Knowledge, puts the soul back on the “arch of ascent”. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. © Copyright 2009 SIPRIn. Sadradin Shirazi (1571-1640), known also as Mulla Sadra, spoke of the primacy of Being and promoted a new ontology, founding a new epistemology. 3) a nexus of cause and effect, The Causal Nexus of Mulla Sadra was a form of Existential Ontology within a Cosmological Framework that Islam supported. Starting from the reality of being, this argument infers the existence of God from God Himself because “the real being and the Necessary Being apply to the same thing”, that is, God (al-Mabda’ wa’l-ma’ad 30). For Mulla Sadra, all knowledge is, at bottom, knowledge by presence because our knowledge of the world is a direct access to what is called mental beings. This pioneering work of reflection on Mulla Sadra's philosophy provides a direct, accessible, and yet provocative work of genuine philosophical reflection, and is an invaluable contribution to the fields of Political Philosophy, Mysticism and the history of Islamic Philosophy. Existence and reality are therefore identical. He is worthy of study by scholars concerned with the development of Islamic philosophy because of his attempt to reconcile various currents of Islamic philosophical thought, particularly the peripatetic tradition of Ibn Arabi. Along with the expansion of knowledge and spiritual evolvement, the soul moves up to higher grades of being. His major theoretical work is Mafatih al-ghayb (Keys to the Invisible). Intellectual truths that are revealed to prophets through the unification of their intellect with the Angel of revelation, identical to the Active Intellect of philosophy, descend to the level of imagination and sense perception in order to be communicated to the people. According to Mulla Sadra, mental being is the key to the realization of all levels of knowledge including sense perception, imagination, and intellection. Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi (Mulla Sadra) is perhaps the single most important and influential philosopher in the Muslim world in the last four hundred years. [16] Reality in Arabic is "Al-Haq", and is stated in the Qur'an as one of the Names of God. Sadra was a very intelligent, strict, energetic, studious, and curious boy and mastered all the lessons related to Persian and Arabic literature, as well as the art of calligraphy, during a very short time.