1571 - 1636
Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā (Persian: ملا صدرا; Arabic: صدر المتألهین; c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, theologian, and ‘Ālim who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mulla Sadra has received more than 402,146 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Mulla Sadra is the 359th most popular philosopher (up from 378th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Iran (down from 111th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Iranian Philosopher.
Mulla Sadra is most famous for his philosophy of “Transcendent theosophy” which is a fusion of the ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Mulla Sadra argued that there are two levels of reality: the world of the intellect and the world of nature. The world of the intellect is the realm of pure thought, while the world of nature is the realm of matter. For Mulla Sadra, the world of the intellect is superior to the world of nature because it is eternal and unchanging.
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Among philosophers, Mulla Sadra ranks 359 out of 1,081. Before him are Euclid of Megara, René Girard, Nachmanides, Uriel da Costa, Macrobius, and Alexandre Kojève. After him are Ronald Dworkin, Edward de Bono, Günther Anders, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Archelaus, and Johann Georg Hamann.
435 BC - 365 BC
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 353
1923 - 2015
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 354
1194 - 1270
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 355
1585 - 1640
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 356
370 - 430
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 357
1902 - 1968
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 358
1571 - 1636
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 359
1931 - 2013
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 360
1933 - 2021
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 361
1902 - 1992
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 362
1835 - 1901
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 363
500 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 364
1730 - 1788
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 365
Among people born in 1571, Mulla Sadra ranks 7. Before him are Johannes Kepler, Caravaggio, Abbas the Great, Hasekura Tsunenaga, Michael Praetorius, and Emperor Go-Yōzei. After him are Thomas Mun, Frederick de Houtman, Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, Willem Blaeu, Charles, Duke of Guise, and Pietro Aldobrandini. Among people deceased in 1636, Mulla Sadra ranks 4. Before him are Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Date Masamune, and Santorio Santorio. After him are Stefano Maderno, Dong Qichang, Sendivogius, Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Iskandar Muda, and Gregorio Fernández.
1571 - 1630
HPI: 87.17
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1571 - 1610
HPI: 84.46
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1571 - 1629
HPI: 75.49
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1571 - 1622
HPI: 64.30
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1571 - 1621
HPI: 63.27
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1571 - 1617
HPI: 62.46
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1571 - 1636
HPI: 61.91
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1571 - 1641
HPI: 61.83
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1571 - 1627
HPI: 57.38
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1571 - 1578
HPI: 57.21
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1571 - 1638
HPI: 56.77
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1571 - 1640
HPI: 56.58
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1571 - 1621
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1564 - 1636
HPI: 69.91
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1567 - 1636
HPI: 66.06
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1561 - 1636
HPI: 62.01
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1571 - 1636
HPI: 61.91
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1576 - 1636
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1555 - 1636
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1566 - 1636
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1568 - 1636
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1583 - 1636
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1576 - 1636
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Among people born in Iran, Mulla Sadra ranks 117 out of 528. Before him are Abbas III (1732), Datis (-600), Ali Shariati (1933), Mohammad-Ali Rajai (1933), Qazi Muhammad (1893), and Arses of Persia (-360). After him are Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Artavasdes II of Armenia (-100), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Mehran Karimi Nasseri (1942), Istakhri (850), and Sasan (200).
1732 - 1740
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600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 62.02
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1933 - 1977
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1933 - 1981
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1893 - 1947
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360 BC - 336 BC
HPI: 61.92
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1571 - 1636
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1209 - 1271
HPI: 61.63
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100 BC - 31 BC
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724 - 756
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1942 - 2022
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850 - 957
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200 - 300
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Among philosophers born in Iran, Mulla Sadra ranks 8. Before him are Al-Tabari (839), Bayazid Bastami (804), Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Miskawayh (932), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), and Mazdak (450). After him are Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Al-Shahrastani (1086), Al-Baydawi (1201), Al-Taftazani (1322), Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892), and Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145).
839 - 923
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804 - 874
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1149 - 1209
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932 - 1030
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 5
1155 - 1191
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 6
450 - 529
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 7
1571 - 1636
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 8
1209 - 1271
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 9
1086 - 1153
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 10
1201 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 11
1322 - 1390
HPI: 56.22
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1892 - 1981
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 13
1145 - 1234
HPI: 55.85
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