the truth about divine names and the meanings of divine names and attributes have always been regarded as key issues in islamic theology and philosophy, and their surrounding debates have so far triggered controversial and challenging ideas. in this context, the difference of opinions between ibn sina as the head of the peripatetic school and mulla sadra as the founder of transcendental theosop...

this article considers all the mulla sadra’s proofs of primacy of existence (asalat al-wujud) found in all his works‚ and concludes that sadra has two approaches in his arguments: (1) to prove the primacy of existence through negation of original attributes from quiddity (mahiyyah), (2) to refute the primacy of quiddity through indirect proof. at the end‚ we conclude that the first approach and...

the present paper discusses the priority of cognitive processes over language production of the speaker, based on mulla sadra’s philosophy of language. in this regard, the conditions of perceiving knowledge as well as the process of language production of the speaker are propounded. mulla sadra believes that knowledge is perceived through a process in which human soul is an active agent rather ...