Revelation, Intellectual Intuition and Reason in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

This book examines and analyses the legitimacy of the widely held claim that Mulla Sadra''s philosophy (al-hikmah al-muta''aliyyah) is a synthesis of principles and doctrines drawn from revelation (wahy), gnosis (''irfan/ma''rifah) and discursive philosophy (al-hikmah al-bahthiyyah). In Mulla Sadra''s view, these three major sources of knowledge can be brought together without contradiction and ac...