Mir Damad 1561 – 1631
Mir Damad, the Master of the Damad, was an Iranian Twelver Shia philosopher and the founder of the School of Isfahan that would culminate in his pupil Mulla Sadra. Working in dialogue with Avicenna and Suhrawardi, he developed an original metaphysics of perpetual creation, in which existence emanates from God in a stretch of metaphysical time distinct from both eternity and ordinary measured time. His Qabasat is the principal text of his system. He served as a leading scholar at the Safavid court of Shah Abbas the Great and was buried at Najaf.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Persian
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Islamic
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Mir Damad:
“Time is the moving image of eternity.”
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Attributed to Mir Damad:
“Existence flows continuously from the Necessary Being.”
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Attributed to Mir Damad:
“True knowledge is the soul's union with the intelligibles.”
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Attributed to Mir Damad:
“Perpetual creation is the proper meaning of God's relation to the world.”
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Attributed to Mir Damad:
“Reason and revelation are two faces of one truth.”