This makes Sadra’s corpus an invaluable source for the...

This makes Sadra’s corpus an invaluable source for the history of Islamic philosophy. In many ways, reading Sadra’s text amounts to reading the entire history behind the problem under investigation. The third important aspect of Sadra’s works is their originality and cogency as a whole. Sadra is known for a number of novel ideas and formulations in the history of Islamic philosophy.

Primacy of being ( asalat al-wujud ), the idea that a simple reality contains in itself all things that belong to its class ( basit al-haqiqah kull al-ashya’ ), gradation of being ( tashkik al-wujud ), unification of the intellect and the intelligible (ittihad al-‘aqil wa’l-ma’qul), substantial motion ( al-harakat al-jawhariyyah ), and the bodily origination and spiritual subsistence of the human soul ( jismaniyyat al-huduth ruhaniyyat al-baqa’ ) are only few…