Abstract

Following the demise of Qiyas ad Din Mansour, and due to the political situation and ideological contradictions as well as firmness of the central Safavid rule, the gathering of the scholars in the capital, on the one side, and the conflicts of Qiyas ad Din and the Safavid reign on the other side and with due consideration of the enmity shown by some of the rulers towards theosophy and philosophy, a great pressure was exerted on the Shiraz School from various sides which led to the migration of the Dashtaki family to remote countries, such as India, Mecca and Medina. Despite all these events the students of Qiyas ad Din Mansour tried to promote the school of Shiraz. Although it is said that Mulla Sadra has learnt theosophy in Isfahan from Sheikh Bahaie and Mirdamad, but most certainly he began his learning in Shiraz through one of the students of Qiyas ad Din and later on he joined the Isfahan philosophical Circle. This article aims at introducing the students of Qiyas ed Din Mansour who are, in short, as follows:1. Sadr ad Din Muhammad Thani2. Mowla Kamal ud Din Hossein Ardebili, known as Elahi3. Jamal ud Din Mahmoud Shirazi4. Mulla Habibullah Baghnavi, known as Mirza Jan Shirazi5. Mirza Sharaf Jahan Qazvini6. Mir Fakhreddin Astarabadi, known as Sammaki7. Mirza Qassem Gonabadi8. Kamal ud Din Hossein Zeymari Isfahani9. Moulana Sheikh Ahmad10. Mowlana Mosleh ud Din Mohammad Ebad Lari11. Taqi ad Din Bal akhir Mohammad Farsi12. Sheikh Mansour Baghnavi13. Mowla Taqi ad Din Mohammad14. Amir Fathullah Shirazi15. Mahmoud ibn Muhammad Dehdar, known as Ayani16. Mohammad Dehdar, known as Fani, etc. Apparently, after the death of Dehdar Fani the great chain of the students of Qiyas ad Din Mansour in the school of Shiraz broke away. Following this period the philosophers of Shiraz should be considered as being followers of the Transcendent Theosophy of Mulla Sadra.