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Mulla Sadra’s Life and Philosophy

Seyed G Safavi London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS)   Abstract This paper discusses the life and philosophy of Mulla Sadra, one of the most important Muslim Iranian philosophers and founder of new school of Islamic philosophy, entitled Transcendent philosophy, in 5 sections: his life, what is the “Transcendent philosophy”, the 14 principles of Mulla […]

God in Greek and Islamic Philosophy: A comparative study of Aristotle and Mulla Sadra Shirazi on the Necessary Existent

 Dr Seyed G Safavi* University of London, UK London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS)   Abstract The nature of God, or the demiurge-creator and designer of the cosmos, is a venerable subject in philosophy and natural theology. Most medieval and religious discourse about God and the ontological and cosmological proofs for His existence in the Abrahamic […]

Islamic Perspective Journal Number 7, 2012

Islamic Perspective Journal Number 7, 2012   To download the electronic version of the journal click here The Journal of Islamic Perspective published by the London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS) is a peer reviewed Journal of the Center for Humanities and Sociological Studies, affiliated to the London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS). This Journal […]

REVERBERATIONS OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOSNIAN SHAYKH AND POET ḤASAN QĀʾIMĪ[1]

هو Dr Sara Susanne Kuehn London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS) Ḥasan Baba, with the makhlaṣ (“[poetic] pseudonym”, Bosn. postojani) of Qāʾimī (“steady, constant, persistent”),[2] also known as Hasan Kaimija, was one of most celebrated Bosnian Ṣūfī shaykhs (spiritual master) and poets of the eleventh/seventeenth century. What is known of his life and work affords […]

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