Sayyid Sadr Al-Din Dashtaki or Sayyed Sanad was an Iranian

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mo ...

philosopher and theologian. He counts as the founder of the

Shiraz Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...

school of philosophy.

Birth

Sadr Al din was born in Dashtah, a region near Shiraz. His complete name was Sayyid Muhammad b. Mansur Al Husayni Al Dashtaki. He was born in

on second of 829/19 June. He counted as the first in the Dastaki family who confessed apparently to

shiism Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...

sect. According to Pourjavady, it seems that he was a

Zaydi Zaydism (''h'') is a unique branch of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century following Zayd ibn Ali‘s unsuccessful rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate. In contrast to other Shia Muslims of Twelver Shi'ism and Isma'ilism, Zaydis, ...

. He also challenged with Jalāl-al-Dīn Davānī on the legality of

Education

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 Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premise ...

and philosophy. Sadr Al Din was also involved in building the houses.

Mansuriyyah Madrasah

Sadr Al-Din built a madrasah and called it Mansuriyyah, the name of his son. This Madrasah is still active in the center of

, according to Kakaei.

Works

* 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 Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād (عربی: تجرید الاعتقاد) or Tajrid al-Kalam is a work by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi about Shia beliefs in Islamic theology. Tajrid is the most famous scholastic text in Shiite theology and most effective work in histor ...

* a treatise on proving the existence of God and his attributes( Risalah fi Ithbat al Wajib and Sifatihi)

Death

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.

Birth

Education

Mansuriyyah Madrasah

Works

Death

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