Iran celebrates the great Persian scholar and philosopher Mulla Sadra.
May 22, Iran celebrates its great Mulla Sadra philosophy.
Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī known simply as Mulla Sadra Shirazi was born in Shiraz (Iran) in 1571 or 1572 and is considered by several sources (Oliver Leaman, Henry Corbin, Seyyed Hossein Nasr) as the most influential Islamic philosopher of the last four centuries .
His thought developed during the reign of Sha 'Abbas I the Great who we remember was the most representative exponent of the Safavids.
We can certainly say that Mulla Sadra developed and perfected the thought of the illuminative school of Sohravardi and definitely gave a new contribution to the philosophical process of Islam, managing to condense and develop the ideas of all the major exponents of Islamic thought (including Ibn Arabi) succeeding at the same time in the creation of a new philosophy that puts in greater prominence the Being and therefore the Existence and the reality of the world rather than the essences and the quiddities and it is in this sense that with Mulla Sadra we witness the passage from the doctrine of essences (essentialism) to the doctrine of Being (realism / existentialism of the Heideggerian type but purely Islamic).