ʿAbd-Al-Razzāq B. ʿAlī B. Al-Hosayn Lāhījī | |
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| Native name | Arabic:فياض اللاهيجي |
| Born | |
| Died | c. 1662CE (1072AH) |
| Occupation | Theologian, poet, philosopher |
| Children | 2+, includingHasan |
| Relatives | Mulla Sadra (father-in-law) |
ʿAbd-Al-Razzāq B. ʿAlī B. Al-Hosayn Lāhījī (died c. 1072AH [1662 CE]) was an Iranian theologian, poet and philosopher.[1] His mentor in philosophy was his father-in-lawMulla Sadra.
Hailing fromLahijan inGilan, he spent most of his life inQom. Abd al-Razzaq was a son-in-law ofMulla Sadra along with MollaMohsen Fayz Kashani.[2] His sonHasan would become another prominent theologian and philosopher of the Safavid dynasty.[3]Seyyed Hossein Nasr knows him among the intellectual figures in Persia.[4] Abd al-Razzaq was in agreement with Molla Sadra as to the contrast between primacy ofquiddity and primacy of existence.[5]
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.[6]
Lāhīǰī stands at the end of a transition in Islamic scholastic theology in which the thought system ofkalam was gradually replaced by that offalsafa, heavily influenced by the school ofAvicenna.[1] 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.[7]
