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Mulla Sadra Shirazi is the first attempt in English to produce a thorough preparatory study of the intellectual biography of this famous Safavid thinker. Previous attempts by other thinkers have been marred by ideological prejudice and the lack of serious intellectual rigour. A proper understanding of Islamic intellectual history requires the study of canonical thinkers, of which Mulla Sadra is certainly one in the philosophical tradition of Iran. The book eschews legends and theoretical constructs of bibliography in favour of a rigorous life that draws upon a wide range of primary sources, many of which are unpublished, and that demonstrate the significance and context of the intellectual contributions of Mulla Sadra. Mulla Sadra Shirazi is quite a traditional biography in that it seeks to locate the life of the thinker and his works in his historical and intellectual content. The course of ideas in Islam is an area of research that is of great interest at the moment; even the study of philosophy has flourished in recent years. Consistently, with recent works on other Islamic philosophers, this book sets the standard for approaching Islamic intellectual history by insisting upon an historical and source-critical approach, allied with a keen philological, but also philosophical, appreciation of the intellectual life of a thinker. The life is based upon the most recent scholarship on Safavid history and draws widely upon primary sources in Arabic and Persian, including a number of works in manuscript. For students of Islamic thought in the early modern period and those with a particular interest in philosophy in Safavid Iran, this book should be the first point of reference. Mulla Sadra Shirazi will become the foundation for further research both on Mulla Sadra and his thought, as well as the thought and intellectual trends of his period

Philosophy, Iranian --- Islamic philosophy --- Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, --- Iranian philosophy --- Philosophy, Persian --- Arabic philosophy --- Muslim philosophy --- Philosophy, Islamic --- Philosophy, Arab --- Al Shirazi, Sader Al-Dine, --- Al-Šīrāzī, Ṣadr Al-Moteʼallehīn Moḥammad b. Ebrāhīm, --- Mollā Saḍrā, --- Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, --- Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadraddīn aš-Šīrāzī, --- Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Sadraddin Schirazi, --- Mullā Ṣadrā, --- Mullā Ṣadrā, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, --- Mulla Sadra, Sadr ad-Din Muhammad Shirazi, --- Mullā Ṣadrā-yi Shīrāzī, --- Mullā Ṣadrā-yi Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, --- Mullā Ṣadrāy-i Shīrāzī, --- Qawwāmī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, --- Sadr ad-Din ash-Shirazi, --- Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, --- Ṣadr al-Mutaʼallihīn Shīrāzī, --- Ṣadrā, Mullā, --- Ṣadrā-yi Shīrāzī, --- Ṣadraddīn aš-Šīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, --- Ṣadrāy-i Shīrāzī, --- Sadriddin Shirazi, --- Sadriddin, Shirazi, --- Schirázi, Muḥammad ibn Ibrahím Ṣadraddín, --- Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn, --- Shirazi, Sadr ad-Din, --- Shīrāzī, Ṣadr al-Dīn, --- Shirazi, Sadriddin, --- Širāzi, Ṣadr Al-din Mohammad, --- Šīrāzī, Ṣadr Al-Moteʼallehīn Moḥammad b. Ebrāhīm, --- الشيرازي ، صدر الدين محمد بن ابراهيم --- صدر الدين الشيرازي، محمد بن ابراهيم, --- صدر الدين شيرازي، محمد ابن ابراهيم --- صدر الدين شيرازي، محمد بن ابراهيم --- صدر الدين شيرازى، محمد ابراهيم --- صدر الدين محمد بن ابراهيم بن يحيى القوامى الشيرازى --- صدر المتألهين --- صدر المتأهين شيرازى --- صدرالدين شيرازي، محمد بن إبراهيم --- محمد بن ابراهيم، صدر الدين شيرازى --- ملا صدرا --- Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, - -1641