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]

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.