Transcendent Theosophy
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Transcendent theosophy or al-hikmat al-muta’liyah (حكمت متعاليه), the doctrine and philosophy that has been developed and perfected by Persian Philosopher Mulla Sadra, is one of two main disciplines of Islamic Philosophy which is very live & active even today.
The expression al-hikmat al-muta’liyah comprises tow terms al-hikmat (meaning theosiphia) and muta’liyah (meaning exalted or Transcendent). This school of Mulla Sadra in Islamic philosophy is usually called al-hikmat al-muta’liyah. It is a most appropriate name for his school, not only for historical reasons, but also because the doctrines of Mulla Sadra are veritably both hikmah or theosophy in its original sense and an intellectual vision of the transcendent which leads to the Transcendent Itself. So Mulla Sadra’s school is transcendent for both historical and metaphysical reasons.
When Mulla Sarda talked about hikmah or theosophy in his words, he usually meant the transcendent philosophy. He gave many definitions to the term hikmah, the most famous one is: hikmah is a vehicle through which “man becomes an intelligible world resembling the objective world and similar to the order of universal existence”.
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- Sadr al-Din Shirazi and Transcendent Theosophy by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
