ʿAbd-Al-Razzāq B. ʿAlī B. Al-Hosayn Lāhījī (died c. 1072 AH 662 CE was an Iranian theologian, poet and philosopher.W. Madelung, "ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ LĀHĪJĪ" in ''Encyclopaedia Iranica''
/ref> His mentor in philosophy was his father-in-law

Mulla Sadra Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā ( fa, ملا صدرا; ar, صدر المتألهین) (c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, the ...

Life

Hailing from Lahijan in Gilan, he spent most of his life in Qom. Abd al—Razzaq was a son-in-law of

along with Molla Mohsen Feyz Kashani. His son Hasan would become another prominent theologian and philosopher of the Safavid dynasty. Seyyed

Hossein Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr (; fa, سید حسین نصر, born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian philosopher and University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. Born in Tehran, Nasr completed his education in Iran and the United St ...

knows him among the intellectual figures in Persia. Abd al—Razzaq was in agreement with Molla Sadra as to the contrast between primacy of

quiddity In scholastic philosophy, "quiddity" (; Latin: ''quidditas'') was another term for the essence of an object, literally its "whatness" or "what it is". Etymology The term "quiddity" derives from the Latin word ''quidditas'', which was used by the ...

and primacy of existence.

Works

*''Gawhar-e morād'' (Tehran, 1271 AH), a detailed exposition of his theology *''Sarmāya-ye īmān'' *''Dīvān'', a volume of his poetry *''Tašrīqāt'', three treatises on divine unity, justice and love

Teaching and pupils

According to Madlung, Abd-Razzaq taught at the Masumieh madrasah. There his prominent pupils included his sons Hasan and Ebrahim as well as Qazi Saeed Qommi.

Philosophy

Lāhīǰī stands at the end of a transition in Islamic scholastic theology in which the thought system of ''

kalam ''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' ( ar, عِلْم الكَلام, literally "science of discourse"), usually foreshortened to ''Kalām'' and sometimes called "Islamic scholastic theology" or "speculative theology", is the philosophical study of Islamic doc ...

'' was gradually replaced by that of ''

falsafa Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition. Two terms traditionally used in the Islamic world are sometimes translated as philosophy—falsafa (literally: "philosophy"), which refers to philosophy as well as logic, ...

'', heavily influenced by the school of Avicenna. Lahiji in fact developed a form of Kalam which is hardly distinguishable from Hikmat, although at least in his better known works such as the "Gawhar-e morād" he does not follow the main doctrinal teachings of Mulla Sadra, as on the unity of Being and the catharsis of the faculty of imagination.Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6 - The Timurid and Safavid Periods, p.691

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lahiji, Abd Al-Razzaq 17th-century Persian-language poets Islamic philosophers Iranian Sufis 17th-century Iranian philosophers People from Lahijan 17th-century writers of Safavid Iran Safavid theologians