FILOZOFIJSKA I GNOSTIČKA MISAO MULLA ṢADRE
PHILOSOPHICAL AND GNOSTIC THOUGHT OF MULLA SADR

Summary/Abstract: Supreme Wisdom is the name of the main Mullā Sadra work (al-Ḥikma al-muta’āliya), because this great philosopher and gnostic thought that philosophy is only a prerequisite for the preparation of winding up to the highest and deepest cognitions. One can say that only by the gnostic complement can philosophy (falsafa) be turned into wisdom (ḥikma), and that this wisdom will be the supreme wisdom (al-ḥikma al-muta’āliya). All three main dimensions of his thought - ontology, epistemology, and the doctrine of the soul - have an essential foundation in the Gnostic cognition that deserves the title of sublime wisdom.

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