Exploring the thought of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, an Iranian Shi'ite of
the seventeenth century: a universe of politics, morality, liberty,
and order that is indispensable to our understanding of Islamic
thought and spirituality. This lluminating study by Christian
Jambet explores the essential elements of the philosophical system
of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, an Iranian Shi'ite of the seventeenth
century. The writings of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (d. 1640) bear witness
to the divine revelation in every act of being, from the most
humble to the most celebrated. More generally, Islamic philosophy
employs an ontology of the real that is important to the destiny of
metaphysics, an ontology that belongs to our own universe of
thought. The Act of Being, nourished by the Sufism of Ibn
al-'Arabi, the philosophy of classical Islam, the thought inherited
from the Greeks, and the esoteric and mystical dimension of
Shi'ism, seeks to make sense of this intuition of the real.Mulla
Sadra saw the world as moving ceaselessly in an uninterrupted
revolution of its substances, in which infinite existence breaks
through the successive boundaries of the sensible and the
intelligible, the mineral and the angelic. In a flourish of
epiphanies, in the multiplied mirror of bodies and souls, Mulla
Sadra perceived absolute divine liberty. Revealing freedom in the
metamorphosis of the believer and the sage, existence teaches the
imitation of the divine that can be seen "in its most beautiful
form." Reading Mulla Sadra reveals the nexus of politics, morality,
liberty, and order in his universe of thought-a universe, as
Christian Jambet shows, that is indispensable to our understanding
of Islamic thought and spirituality.
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