Shiraz
Persia / Iran — south
Shiraz, in the Fars province of southern Iran, is the historic capital of the Fars region and a celebrated centre of Persian poetry and philosophy. The poet Hafiz (d. c. 1390) lived and is buried there, and the philosopher Mulla Sadra (d. 1640), founder of the 'transcendent theosophy' school, was born and taught in the city; the philosopher Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (d. 1311) also took his nisba from it.
12 most-discussed ideas
Works composed here
- 1013
Icjaz Quran
by al-Baqillani
- 1013
Insaf
by al-Baqillani
- 1013
Intisar Quran
by al-Baqillani
- 1013
Tamhid Awail
by al-Baqillani
- 1013
Taqrib Wa Irshad
by al-Baqillani
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Shiraz. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Qadar (Divine Decree & Predestination)5 passages
- Iʿjāz (Inimitability of the Qurʾān)5 passages
- Kasb (Acquisition of Acts)5 passages
- Muʿtazila (Rationalist Theology)4 passages
- al-Ḥusn wa-l-Qubḥ (Moral Value of Acts)4 passages
- Khalq al-Qurʾān (Createdness of the Qurʾān)4 passages
- Ruʾyat Allāh (The Beatific Vision)4 passages
- ʿAdl (Divine Justice)4 passages
- Waḥy (Revelation)4 passages
- Kalām Nafsī (Inner Divine Speech)4 passages
- Qurʾān (as Source of Law)4 passages
- Sunna (Prophetic Practice)4 passages