Sayyid Sadr Al-Din Dashtaki or Sayyed Sanad was an Iranian Shia philosopher and theologian. He counts as the founder of the Shiraz school of philosophy.[1]
Birth
[edit]Sadr Al din was born in Dashtah, a region near Shiraz.[1] His complete name was Sayyid Muhammad b. Mansur Al Husayni Al Dashtaki. He was born in Shiraz on second of 829/19 June.[citation needed] He counted as the first in the Dastaki family who confessed apparently to shiism sect. According to Pourjavady, it seems that he was a Zaydi.[citation needed] He also challenged with Jalāl-al-Dīn Davānī on the legality of Shia.[2]
Education
[edit]Dashtaki was educated along with his cousin and learned Arabic literature and Islamic law with him. He studied rational sciences with Qawam Al Din Al-Kurbali. Kurbali had an important role in introducing Sadr Al-Din to Philosophical discussion, as did Sayyid Muslim Farsi, who was the teacher of Sadr Al-Din in logic and philosophy. Sadr Al Din was also involved in building the houses.[citation needed]
Mansuriyyah Madrasah
[edit]Sadr Al-Din built a madrasah and called it Mansuriyyah, the name of his son. This Madrasah is still active in the center of Shiraz, according to Kakaei.[citation needed]
Works
[edit]- Jawaher namah on gemmology
- glosses on Qutb Al Din Razi's commentary on Katibi Qazavini's Shamsiyyah
- glosses on Qutb Al Din Razi's commentary Siraj Al Din Urmawi's Matali Al Anwar
- glosses on Qushji's commentary on Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād[citation needed]
- a treatise on proving the existence of God and his attributes( Risalah fi Ithbat al Wajib and Sifatihi)[citation needed]
Death
[edit]Sadr Al Din led a rebellion against the Ruler of Shiraz and was killed by a group of Turkmans on order of Ruler Qasem Bey. He died on 17 Ramadan 903/9 May 1498.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ a b (Nasr 2006, p. 195)
- ^ "QĀŻI SAʿID QOMI". iranicaonline.org.
Works cited
[edit]- Nasr, Seyyed Hossein (2006). Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-6799-2.
Further reading
[edit]- Bdaiwi, Ahab, "Some Remarks on the Confessional Identity of the Philosophers of Shiraz: Sadr al-Dîn Dashtakî (d. 903/1498) and his Students Mullâ Shams al-Dîn Khafrî (942/1535) and Najm al-Dîn Mahmûd Nayrîzî (948/1541),“ Ishraq 5 (2014): 61–85.
- Bdaiwi, Ahab (2023). "The Youth Who Defeated Aristotle: The Life and Thought of Dashtakī (d. 948/1541)". Global Intellectual History. doi:10.1080/23801883.2022.2163915.