Mulla Sadra

Tags: Philosopher.

Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī also called Mulla Sadrā (Persian: ملا صدرا‎; also spelt Molla Sadra Mollasadra or Sadr-ol-Mote’allehin; Arabic: صدرالمتألهین‎) (c. 1572–1640) was an Iranian Shia Islamic philosopher theologian and ‘Ālim who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century.

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birth date

1571-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

birth place

Shiraz

death date

1636-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

death place

Basra

era

Islamic philosophy

influenced

Ruhollah Khomeini, Morteza Motahhari, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei

main interest

Transcendent theosophy, Illuminationism

region

Iranian philosophy, Islamic philosophy