حركت جوهري از عزيزالدين نسفي تا صدرالدين شيرازي

The Trans-Substantial Motion from ʹAziz al-Din Nasafi to Mulla Sadra

Aziz al-Din Ibn Muhammed Nasafi is most probably one of the greatest divine philosophers of Iran in the 7th century. Unfortunately, he is not well-known to the people of philosophy. The important characteristic of this gnostic-philosopher of the Kubrawiyyah School is his philosophical balance in a period which was the most difficult time during Mongolsʹ invasion, and two of the most conspicuous features of which were violence and radicalism. Nasafi has explained and analyzed many philosophical concepts in his books one of the most important of which is the process of manʹs entelechy and, essentially, the trans-substantial motion, which was later elaborated on by Mulla Sadra. Apparently, one can perceive Islamic philosophy only when one manages to find the lost links of the chain of philosophers. Nasafi can be considered one of the links that connected gnosis to philosophy and later influenced the Isfahan School to a great extent. This paper examines the ways in which Mulla Sadra was influenced by ʹAziz Nasafi regarding the concepts of the trans-substantial motion and the process of manʹs entelechy.