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Mulla Sadra

1571 - 1636

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Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā (Persian: ملا صدرا; Arabic: صدر المتألهین; c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, theologian, and ‘Ālim who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century. According to Oliver Leaman, Mulla Sadra is arguably the single most important and influential philosopher in the Muslim world in the last four hundred years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mulla Sadra is the 409th most popular philosopher (down from 387th in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Iran (down from 131st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Iranian Philosopher.

Mulla Sadra is most famous for his philosophy of “Transcendent theosophy” which is a fusion of the ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Mulla Sadra argued that there are two levels of reality: the world of the intellect and the world of nature. The world of the intellect is the realm of pure thought, while the world of nature is the realm of matter. For Mulla Sadra, the world of the intellect is superior to the world of nature because it is eternal and unchanging.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mulla Sadra ranks 409 out of 1,267. Before him are Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Luce Irigaray, E. H. Carr, Yajnavalkya, Paul Tillich, and Thomas Hill Green. After him are Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Jean Gerson, Hilary Putnam, Leszek Kołakowski, Bharadwaja, and Francis Hutcheson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1571, Mulla Sadra ranks 7. Before him are Johannes Kepler, Caravaggio, Abbas the Great, Hasekura Tsunenaga, Emperor Go-Yōzei, and Michael Praetorius. After him are Frederick de Houtman, Thomas Mun, Willem Blaeu, Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy, and Paulus Moreelse. Among people deceased in 1636, Mulla Sadra ranks 4. Before him are Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Date Masamune, and Santorio Santorio. After him are Dong Qichang, Sendivogius, Stefano Maderno, John Albert II, Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Iskandar Muda, Gregorio Fernández, and Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mulla Sadra ranks 134 out of 631. Before him are Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Shahnaz Pahlavi (1940), Amytis of Media (-630), Mohammad Shah Qajar (1808), Vologases IV (150), and Phraates IV (-90). After him are Vologases VI (200), Bahram Chobin (600), Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar (1853), Mohammad Khodabanda (1531), Jafar Panahi (1960), and Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Mulla Sadra ranks 10. Before him are Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Bayazid Bastami (804), Miskawayh (932), Mazdak (450), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), and Haji Bektash Veli (1209). After him are Al-Baydawi (1201), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), Al-Taftazani (1322), Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892), Hossein Nasr (1933), and Abdolkarim Soroush (1945).

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