School of Isfahan

School of Isfahan (Persian مکتب فلسفی اصفهان / maktab -e -e Esfahan Falsafi ) is a term coined by Henry Corbin and Seyyed Hossein Nasr collective term for a series zwölferschiitischer thinkers of the late 16th and 17th century, is a synthesis of different currents sought. The Isfahan School - after the Persian city of Isfahan ( Esfahan ), the capital of the Safavid named - was of great influence on art and philosophy in Iran.

As the spiritual founder and central figure of the school is Mir Damad (Persian: میرداماد, † 1632). For him it is " partly due to that the theological college in Isfahan became the center of rational Islamic sciences."

" The different streams of school lead to three ways of finding a single truth: Revelation ( wahy ), reason ( aql ) and Mystical revelation ( Kashf ). "

Important representatives of the Isfahan school were:

• Mir Damad (d. 1632)
• Mulla Sadra (1571-1640)
• Bahauddin Amili (1547-1621)
• I Findiriski (1560-1640)
• Muhsin Faiz Kashani ( 1598/9-1680 )
• Abdurrazzaq Lahidschi (d. 1661)
• Qadi Sa'id Qummi (1639-1691)

Quote ( isph.ir )

" The founder of the Isfahan school are Mir Damad and his contemporaries, including me Fenderesky and Sheikh Baha'i. Mulla Sadra your students, Rajab Ali Tabrizi, Mir Sayyed Ahmad Alavi, Hossein Khansari, Fayyaz Lahidji and Mirza Rafi'e Nayini can be considered as the second generation. The second group, in turn, had their own disciples, representing the third generation, including Fayz Kashani, Jamal Khansari, Sa'id Ghazi Qomi, Khatounababi Ismail, Mohammad Sadeq Ardestani, Mulla Hassan Fazel Anbani and Hindi. The Isfahan School outlasted even the Afghan attack on Isfahan. The revival by Khajou'i, Bidabadi and Akhound Nouri was not limited to Isfahan, but began to find out how Qazvin, Tabriz, Mashhad, Najaf, Qom and Tehran also supporters in other cities. "