Mir Damad

Philosopher, Author

– 1631

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Who was Mir Damad?

Mir Damad, known also as Mir Mohammad Baqer Esterabadi, or Asterabadi, was an Iranian philosopher in the Neoplatonizing Islamic Peripatetic traditions of Avicenna and Suhrawardi, a scholar of the traditional Islamic sciences, and foremost figure, of the cultural renaissance of Iran undertaken under the Safavid dynasty. As such he was the central founder of the School of Isfahan, noted by his students and admirers as the Third Teacher after Aristotle and al-Farabi.

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Religion
  • Islam
Nationality
  • Iran
Profession
Died
1631

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on July 23, 2013

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