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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books An Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Sadr Al-din Al-shirazi (mulla Sadra) With a Brief Account of His Life B: Works in the Field of Intellectual Sciences 1- Ajwibat al-masa’il al-kashaniyyah (“Answers to Ka sha ni’ s Questions”).S adra ’s answers to five questions on the soul posed by Mulla Muz affarH usayn Ka sha ni, a contemporary ofS adra and a disciple of Mi r Findiriski .

In his answers,S adra elaborates on various aspects of the soul, its perceptual and intellectual faculties, and the differences among the human souls from the state of potentiality and imperfection to full realization and spiritual perfection. The critical edition of the text appears in Is faha ni , Majmu’ah (third treatise; pp. 125-160).

2- Ajwibat al-masa’il al-nasiriyyah (“Answer to the Nasirean Questions”).S adra ’s answers to three questions posed by Nasi r al-Di n al-Tusi to Shams al-Di n ‘Abd al-H ami d ibn ‘I sa Khusrawsha hi , which had remained unanswered. The first question asked byTusi and answered byS adra is about motion and its relation to time. The second question is about potentiality ( al-imkan ) and how it relates to the physical and spiritual growth of human beings.

The third question deals with multiplicity, how it has originated from the One, and whether multiplicity emanates from the One in a single act of creation or in an order of descent. The lithograph edition appears on the margins ofS adra ’s al-Mabda’ wa’l-ma’ad and Sharh al-hidayah . The critical edition is in Is faha ni , Majmu’ah (sixth treatise; pp. 163-177).

3- Ajwibat al-masa’il Shams al-Din Muhammad Ghilani (“Answers to Ghi la ni’ s Questions”).S adra ’s responses to five philosophical questions asked by the Peripatetic philosopher Mulla Shamsa -yi Ghi la ni , also known as Shamsa , who was a student of Mi r Da ma d.[^45] In a sense, the questions can be considered to be a Peripatetic critique ofS adra ’s transcendent philosophy by one of the prominent figures of the circle of Mi r Da ma d.

Ghi la ni’ s questions, it appears, have givenS adra an opportunity to further clarify some of his ideas against his critics.