Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1. School of Isfahan I: Mir Damad’s ‘Wisdom of the Right Side’ Mir Damad’s Life and Works Philosophical Doctrine Metaphysics I. Making the Quiddities Metaphysics II. Perpetuity and Perpetual Inception Physics: Perpetuity and Motion Psychology and Eschatology Chapter 2. The Gnostic of Shiraz: Mulla Sadra’s ‘Transcendent Wisdom’ Mulla Sadra’s Life and Works Key Elements of the Doctrine The Principality of Existence in respect to Quiddity Systematic Ambiguity of Existence Substantial Motion Eschatology Summary of Sadra’s Doctrine: Eleven Premises Addendum. Sadra and the Stoics Chapter 3. School of Isfahan II: The Apophatic Wisdom of Rajab 'Ali Tabrizi Rajab 'Ali Tabrizi’s Life and Works Pivotal Tenets: Principality of Thing and Homonymy of Existence 'Ali Quli bin Qarachaghay Khan –The Perfecter of Tabrizi’s Doctrine Chapter 4. A Comparative Analysis of the Doctrines Mir Damad and Mulla Sadra, Mir Damad and Rajab 'Ali Tabrizi Mulla Sadra and Rajab 'Ali Tabrizi Conclusion Bibliography

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Re-thinks the notion of the 'school of Isfahan' by examining the philosophies of the founders, Mir Damad, Mulla Sadra and Rajab 'Ali Tabrizi

About the Author

Janis Esots is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK and Associate Professor at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Latvia, Latvia. His research focuses on Ismaili thought and the so-called ‘philosophical school of Isfahan’ (Mulla Sadra, Mir Damad, and Rajab ‘Ali Tabrizi). He is the managing editor of Encyclopedia Islamica and the editor of the Islamic Philosophy Yearbook, Ishraq.

Reviews

It is a highly useful contribution that will be telling and should be widely adopted in classes and read with avid interest by those seeking to make sense of the broader intellectual history of Islamic philosophical traditions into the modern period. * The Muslim World Book Review *