Blurb:

Mullā Ṣadrā is credited with introducing an existentialist revolution in Islamic philosophy, arguing that existence (wujūd) is the sole basis of reality and that the entire cosmos and its contents are nothing but varying levels of intensity of the self-same wujūd. Translated here are several of the more important passages from two of Ṣadrā’s key works—The Book of Metaphysical Penetrations and The Four Noetic Journeys—in which he lays out the fundamentals of his ontology. These texts are then followed by an excerpt from a monumental commentary upon The Four Noetic Journeys by the major contemporary Persian philosopher ʿAbd Allāh Jawādī Āmulī (b. 1933).