TRANSCENDENTNA FILOZOFIJA MULLA SADRA SHIRAZIJA
TRANSCENDENT PHILOSOPHY OF MULLA SADR SHIRAZI

Summary/Abstract: The thought of Mulla Sadra Shirazi represents the very peak of later Islamic philosophy and the synthesis of the total Muslim intellectual engagement. His philosophy, marked by the terms 'transcendent' or 'metaphilosophy' (al-hikma muta'aliyya), figures as a kind of synthesis of peripatetic philosophy by Ibn Sina, illumination philosophy by Suhrawardi, gnostic theory of Ibn Arabi and fundamental doctrines of Muslim theology. In other words, a philosopher from Shiraz in his text soothes the most luxurious fruits of philosophy (falsafah), gnosis ('irfan) and theology (kalam). It's about that philosophy that nurtres rational and demonstrative approach, but that also includes intellectual intuition (dhawq/kashf) as an integral part of knowledge. The exposure of Mulla Sadra's philosophy, as the most important representative of Isfahan philosophical school of the XVI and XVII century, leadS to an insight into the groundlessness of the thesis of the "end" of the Islamic philosophy and the detection of continuity of Muslim philosophical thinking.

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