Book Summary
Sadr al-Din Muhammad Shirazi (1572-1640), more commonly called Mulla Sadra, was one of the grand scholars of later-period Islamic philosophy and has grown to become one of the best-known Muslim philosophers. Iksir al-'arifin, or Elixir of the Gnostics, is unique among Sadra's writings in that it reworks and amplifies an earlier Persian work, the Jawidan-nama (Book of the Everlasting) by Afdal al-Din Kashani, or Baba Afdal. The underlying theme of Sadra's amplification is emblematic of Muslim philosophy: the importance of self-knowledge in an individual's journey of "Origin and Return," the soul's origins with God and its eventual return to Him. Everything, Sadra says, is on such a path, gradually disengaging from the material world and returning to a transcendent essence
Book Details
| Book Name | Iksir Al-Arifin/Mulla Sadra, The Elixir Of The Gnostics: A Parallel English-Arabic Text |
| Author | William C. Chittick, Daniel C. Peterson, Parviz Morewedge |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University Press (Jan 2003) |
| ISBN | 9780934893701 |
| Pages | 145 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1436 |
