Shiraz, May 22, IRNA - The Iranian people commemorate May 22 as the national day of commemorating Mulla Sadra, a great Persian and Islamic philosopher, mystic and theologian.
The renowned scholar was the leader of cultural renaissance in the 17th century in Iran. He lived during the Safavid dynasty and played a key role in developing the Islamic and Iranian culture at that time.
Mulla Sadra created Theosophy Transcendent (transcendental philosophy), which is the third angle of the Islamic philosophy.
Although Mulla Sadra was not the founder of the Illuminationism, he is considered one of the most important figures of the Illuminationist school of philosophy, aka Ishragh.
Ali Mohammad Sajedi, a professor at Shiraz University, told IRNA that Mulla Sadra combined Islamic tenets and theoretical mysticism and illuminationist philosophy in order to create a new philosophical system that is called theosophy transcendent.
Mulla Sadra had the same role as great philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Rene Descartes did in the West and Western philosophy, Sajedi noted, adding that the Iranian philosopher created a link between originality of existence and mysticism, and that he raised the issue of connection between human and the whole world and God.
According to the professor, the works of the great Iranian polymath can be partitioned into four arenas, including philosophy, logic, hadith and interpretation of the Holy Quran.
Sadr ad-Din Mohammad Shirazi also known as Mulla Sadra was born in Shirza in 1571. He died in Basra, Iraq, in 1635, when he was going to Hajj pilgrimage. His tomb is located in Najaf, Iraq.
