Mulla Sadra made the primacy of existence (asalat al-wujud) the cornerstone of his philosophy. Aristotle had pointed out that existence was the most universal of predicates and therefore could not be included as one of the categories, and Farabi added to this that it was possible to know an...
Thedaʿwawas a hierarchical establishment consisting of the intellectual and religious elite of the Fatimid state. Though sometimes translated as “preachers,” the term “duʿāt” referred to scholars with a mission that went well beyond preaching. During the Fatimid dynastydaʿwa“functioned...