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Mulla Sadra
~A comprehensive pseudo-autobiographical summary of myself and
some of my notable accomplishments~
An abridged biography of myself:

My name is Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, but I’m more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā. I’m a Persian Islamic mystic philosopher,
theologian, and a leading member of the Iranian cultural renaissance, among many other things.

A lot of my contemporaries also consider me to be the one of, if not the single most important and influential philosopher in the Muslim world. [2]

It could also be said that I am a key figure in the Illuminationist (or, Ishraghi or Ishraqi) school of Philosophy, a person who synthesized elements
from multiple Islam Golden Age philosophies and refined it into what I dub the Transcendent Theosophy or al-hikmah al-muta’āliyah.

This further adds on branches of philosophy concerning existence and reality, not unlike what you may recognize to be study of ontology.
Furthermore, my influence was the primary cause for the transition from essentialism to existentialism in Islamic Philosophy.[3] Though in this
context, existentialism should not be confused for Western existentialism, my inquiry was of an existentialist cosmology in relation to God, and
thus differs considerably from the individual, moral, and/or social, questions at the heart of Russian, French, German, or American
Existentialism.[4]
The belief in which all
things have a thought, an A form of philosophical
“idea” or “form.” [5] inquiry that explores the
issue of human
existence.[6]
Early life:

I was born in Shiraz, Iran, to a family of court officials in either 1571 or 1572.[7] In that time, it was customary that children of aristocrats were
educated by private tutors in their own palace. And so I took my lessons. I was noted to be a very bright, principled, studious, and curious child by
many. And later, I mastered all that I was taught about Persian and Arabic literature, as well as the art of Calligraphy.

Following other traditions in his time, at the age of puberty, I learnt horseback riding, hunting, and sparring techniques. Furthermore, I also
studied in multiple fields such as mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. In other aspects of my studies, I devoted a lot of time to studying the
holy word of God, as well as the Islamic law. But out of all that, I was particularly attracted to philosophy, particularly mystical philosophy as well
as Gnosis. This would be the path to my later accomplishments in fields of philosophy.[8]
Advanced education:

I would soon become a master of science of his time, associated with other prominent figures and philosophers who were contemporaries. Two of
them, namely Baha' ad-Din al-`Amili and Mir Damad, whom I was accompanied with when the Safavid capital was transferred from Qazvin to
Isfahan in 1596 CE / 1006 AH.

The former of the two had was specialized in Islamic sciences and secret knowledge, but he was as well-versed in astronomy, theoretical
mathematics, engineering, architecture, medicine and much more.

The latter of the two decided was more limited in his specialties, but was the more well-versed of the two in fields of law, hadith, general
philosophy, Aristotelian and Illuminationist schools of thought. The last two of these fields being the ones I would study more about.

This in turn, would eventually lead to my Magnum Opus.

And while there are many contenders for this title, a great contender for the title would be the Hikmat Al Muta'alyahfi-l-asfar al-‘aqliyya
al-arba‘a [The Transcendent theosophy in the Four Journeys of the Intellect]: A philosophical encyclopedia compiling a set of prominent issues
featured in Islamic philosophy, which took me 25 years to compile.[9]
Bibliography:
Main References (and credit to):

Wikipedia contributors, “Baha' ad-Din al-`Amili.” Wikipedia, 30 Apr. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baha%27_ad-Din_al-%60Amili

Wikipedia contributors, “Essentialism.” Wikipedia, 30 Apr. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism

Wikipedia contributors, “Existentialism.” Wikipedia, 30 Apr. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

Wikipedia contributors, “Mir Damad.” Wikipedia, 30 Apr. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Damad

Wikipedia contributors, “Mulla Sadra.” Wikipedia, 30 Apr. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulla_Sadra

Wikipedia contributors, “The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect.” Wikipedia, 30 Apr. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikmat_Al_Muta%27alyah_(book)

Derived Sources (and credit to):

Asfar e Arba, Tarjuma Maulana Modudi, ‫ اﺳﻔﺎر ارﺑﻌہ‬quranwahadith.co

Ayatollahi, Hamidreza (2005). The Existence of God: Mulla Sadra's Seddiqin Argument versus Criticisms of Kant and Hume. Teheran: SIPRIn.

Kamal, Muhammad (2006), Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., pp. 9, 39, ISBN 0-7546-5271-8

Leaman 2013, p.146.

"Mulla Sadra's Life and Philosophy – London Academy of Iranian Studies". 7 December 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

Rizvi, Sajjad (2002), Reconsidering the life of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, Pembroke College, p. 181