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Author: Dr. Fazlur Rahman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi)

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• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• A. Mulla Sadra and the Character of His Philosophy
• B. Sadra's Sources and His Originality
• 1. General
• 2. Sadra's Predecessors
• 3. Evaluation
• C. Sadra's Works and His Influence
• Notes
• PART I: ONTOLOGY
• Chapter I: The Metaphysics of Existence
• A. Existence
• B. Controversy with the “Essentialists”
• C. Systematic Ambiguity (Tashkik ) of Existence
• D. Tension between Monism and Pluralism
• Notes
• Chapter II: Essence
• Notes
• Chapter III: Cause I: Nature of Causation
• A. Cause-Effect Relationship
• B. Impossibility of Causal Regress
• Notes
• Chapter IV: Cause II: God-World Relationship
• A. Efficient Cause and Final Cause
• B. God-World Relationship
• Notes
• Chapter V: Movement, Time, and World-Order
• A. Movement
• B. Time
• C. World-Order
• Notes
• PART II: THEOLOGY
• Chapter I: God's Nature
• A. Proof of God's Existence
• B. God as Pure Existence
• C. God's Unity
• Notes
• Chapter II: God's Attributes - I
• A. God's Being and Attributes
• B. Knowledge
• Notes
• Chapter III: God's Attributes - II
• A. Power and Will
• 1. A Survey of Alternative Views
• 2. Sadra's Criticism of These Views and His Position
• 3. Relationship of God's Will to Man
• 4. Doctrines of Bada' (Change of Mind in God), Naskh (Abrogation of Laws) and Taraddud (Reluctant Decision)
• B. Divine Speech and Revelation
• Notes
• PART III: PSYCHOLOGY; MAN AND HIS DESTINY
• Chapter I: Nature of the Soul
• Notes
• Chapter II : Theory of Knowledge - I
• A. General Considerations
• B. The Problem of “Mental Existence (al-wujud al-dhihni )”
• Notes
• Chapter III: Theory of Knowledge - II: Perception and Imagination
• A. External Sense
• B. Internal Sense: Imagination and Wahm
• Notes
• Chapter IV: Theory of Knowlege - III: The Intellect
• A. Introduction
• B. The Problem of Abstraction
• C. Ibn Sina on the “Simple Intellect”
• D. Identity of the Intellect and the Intelligible
• Notes
• Chapter V: Eschatology
• A. Impossibility of Transmigration
• B. Proofs of an Afterlife
• C. The Nature of Afterlife
• Notes
• EPILOGUE

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