The Great Persian Philosopher Sadr al-Din Shirazi

Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi, who rose to prominence in the seventeenth century, is considered one of the most eminent minds in Islamic thought and the last of the great Shiite sages. Combining philosophy, religious sciences, and Sufism, he expanded the horizons of thought and ijtihad, until his name became a symbol of an entire school of thought, stemming from the Qur''an and drawing on the ancient sou...