ABSTRACT
Mulla Sadra’s philosophy has received huge attention in Muslim and Western academia, particularly, and scholarship on his life, times and intellectual connections has grown exponentially. For Henry Corbin, Mulla Sadra is the original luminary in the history of Islamic thought. He suggests that Sadra, like Suhrawardi, was essentially a Platonist and should be seen as comparable to those of the well-known circle of Cambridge Platonists, such as Henry More and Descartes. James W. Morris follows the tradition of Corbin and Nasr and regards Sadra as an esoteric and mystically inclined thinker. Hasani claims that the model of Sadra’s politics is capable of reconciling and benefiting from all four rationalities within a single framework. Transcendent politics is based on existential reality within certain moral principles, which suggests a transcendent aim for humanity whilst still benefiting from human reason and secular politics. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
