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Mīr Dāmād was a leading theologian and jurist in early seventeenth Persia, a context characterized by the staunch Shī‘ite cultural policy of the Ṣafavid state. As one of the most prominent Iranian philosophers in the early modern era, he drew on the heritage of Avicenna and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī but was not satisfied with merely appending to it by way of commentary. Mīr Dāmād is especially known for his original analysis of the concepts of time and eternity, as well as for having held the controversial doctrine of the metaphysical primacy of essence as opposed to existence. He was a mentor and close friend of Mullā Ṣadrā, whose fame would later outshine that of the older colleague.
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Kaukua, J. (2015). Mīr Damad, Muhammad Bāqir. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_152-1
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