Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji

ʿAbd-Al-Razzāq B. ʿAlī B. Al-Hosayn Lāhījī (died c. 1072 AH [1662 CE]) was an Iranian theologian, poet and philosopher.^[1] His mentor in philosophy was his father-in-law Mulla Sadra.

ʿAbd-Al-Razzāq B. ʿAlī B. Al-Hosayn Lāhījī
Native name	Arabic: فياض اللاهيجي
Born	Lahijan, Safavid Iran (present-day Iran)
Died	c. 1662 CE (1072 AH)
Occupation	Theologian, poet, philosopher
Children	2+, including Hasan
Relatives	Mulla Sadra (father-in-law)

Life

Hailing from Lahijan in Gilan, he spent most of his life in Qom. Abd al-Razzaq was a son-in-law of Mulla Sadra along with Molla Mohsen Fayz Kashani.^[2] His son Hasan 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 of quiddity and primacy of existence.^[5]

Works

• Gawhar-e morād (Tehran, 1271 AH), a detailed exposition of his theology
• Sarmāya-ye īmān
• Dīvān, a volume of his poetry
• Tašrīqāt, three treatises on divine unity, justice and love

Teaching and pupils

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]

Philosophy

Lāhīǰī stands at the end of a transition in Islamic scholastic theology in which the thought system of kalam was gradually replaced by that of falsafa, heavily influenced by the school of Avicenna.^[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]