Mulla Sadra al-Din Society

Mulla Sadra al-Din Society Biography Ṣadr al-Dīn, Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī (b. 979/1571-1572 - d. 1050/1640) is a well-known Shiite philosopher, mystic, and exegete of the Quran. He is also known as Mullā Ṣadrā and Ṣadr al-Muti'allihīn. He was a student of Mir Damad and Baha' al-Din al-'Amili. His best-known student was al-Fayd al-Kashani. Mulla Sadra was the founder of the influential philosophical school known as the Transcendent Wisdom or philosophy—the third main philosophical school in Islam. Education He studied the preliminaries under his father in Shiraz. When his father died, he moved to Isfahan—the then Safavid capital with flourishing seminary schools. He studied philosophy and other reflective disciplines under Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Mir Damad (d. 1041/1631) and traditional disciplines (such as fiqh and hadith) from Baha' al-Din al-'Amili (d. 1030/1620). He received permissions (for teaching and other positions) from the two teachers. He must have b...