Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji

Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji (died about 1662) was an Iranian theologian, poet and philosopher of the Safavid era, born in Lahijan in Gilan and based for most of his career in Qom. He was the student and son-in-law of Mulla Sadra, whose philosophical influence shaped his own thought even as he diverged from Sadra's doctrines on the unity of Being and the purification of the imagination. His philosophical career exemplifies the gradual replacement of scholastic theology, kalam, by philosophical inquiry, falsafa, in the Avicennan tradition, and his major theological work, Gawhar-e Morad, sets out a detailed exposition of that synthesis. He also wrote Sarmaya-ye Iman and a book of poetry, and he taught at the Masumieh Madrasah in Qom, where his students included his sons Hasan and Ebrahim Lahiji and the scholar Qazi Sa'id Qummi.