Today I’ll look at the philosophers of Isfahan, specifically Muhammad Ibrahim Shirazi, born in 1635. The Isfahan School rose out of Shii Islam and was a mix of philosophy and mysticism. Shirazi is seen as a very important Islamic philosopher. He informed about religion, mythicism and neoplatonist philosophy. He wrote on Transcendental Philosophy and seem to have been less mathematically inclined that Maimonides. He ordered his transcendental philosophy into 4 journeys. The first one being from world to god, the second from god to within god, the third back to world and at last together with god in the world.
He defined philosophy as the perfection of the human soul, bringing cognition of the truth of the world and of existence. Like the Ibn-Arabi he believed to achieve a resemblance of god. Philosophy cures the ignorant but is limited by human nature.
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