Philosopher
Mir Damad
Overview
Seyyed Mir Mohammad Baqer Astarabadi (c. 1561 – 1631/1632), commonly known as Mīr Dāmād (Persian: ميرداماد), was an Iranian Twelver Shia philosopher in the Neoplatonizing Islamic Peripatetic traditions of Avicenna. He was a scholar of the traditional Islamic sciences, and foremost figure (together with his student Mulla Sadra) of the cultural renaissance of Iran undertaken under the Safavid dynasty. He was also the central founder of the School of Isfahan, noted by his students and admirers as the Third Teacher (mu'alim al-thalith) after Aristotle and al-Farabi.
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Philosophers who discussed Mir Damad
Ideas Mir Damad discusses
- Avicenna
- Philosophy
- Mulla Sadra
- Iran
- Avicennism
- Islamic philosophy
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Early Islamic philosophy
- Al-Farabi
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Twelver Shi'ism
- Neoplatonism
- Shia Islam
- Aristotle
- Islam
- Rationalism
- Iraq
- Abbas the Great
- Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present
- School of Isfahan
Place in the tradition
Part of Iranian philosophy.