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Existence or Rather of the
Existent), 244
Risålah jawåban li-thalåth maså˘il
(Treatise of Response to Three
Questions), 176
Risålah maws¶mah bi-silsilat al-tart¥b,
al- (Treatise Known as the
Hierarchic Chain), 174
Risålat al-a¿÷awiyyah, al- (Treatise on
the Day of Resurrection), 230
Risålat al-¿iyå˘ al-‘aql¥ fi maw¿¶‘ al-
‘ilm al-kull¥ (Treatise of Intellectual
Light concerning Universal
Science), 174
Risålat al-siyåsiyyah, al- (Treatise on
Politics), 189
Risålat al-taw÷¥d (The Treatise of
Unity), 128
Risåla-yi ƒinå‘iyyah (Treatise on the
Arts), 216, 217
rishis, 7
Rizvi, Saiyid Athar Abbas, 205
Robinson, Francis, 291n51, 318n1
The Romance of W¥s and Ram¥n
(Gurgån¥), 172
Rose Garden of Divine Mysteries
(Shabistar¥). See The Secret Rose
Garden of Divine Mysteries
Rosenthal, Erwin, 15, 23, 322n30
Rosenthal, Franz, 23, 287n10
Rowe, Joseph, 329n9
Rowson, Everett K, 23
Royal Selections concerning the
Unveiling of Gnostic Truths
(Zun¨z¥), 237
Rubå‘iyyåt (Khayyåm), 167, 183
R¨± Allåh Khumayn¥, Ayatollah.
See Khumayn¥, Ayatollah R¨±
Allåh
R¨m¥, Jalål al-D¥n, l41, 191, 265,
290n39
Russia, 274
Sabaeans, 43
S.abbå±, ¡asan al-, 146
såbiq, 149
Index 371
Sabziwår¥, ¡åjj¥ Mullå Håd¥, 65, 79,
88, 117, 167, 203, 238, 318n37
Sabziwår¥, M¥rzå ¡asan, 246
The Sacred Book, 227, 228, See also
the Quran
Sacred Effusion, 66
Sa‘d al-D¥n al-Taftåzån¥. See
Taftåzån¥, Sa‘d al-D¥n
S.ådiq, Imam Ja‘far al-. See Ja˘far al-
S.ådiq
S.adr, Mu±ammad Båqir al-, 117, 277
S.ard al-D¥n al-Qunyaw¥. See
Qunyaw¥, S.adr al-D¥n
S.adr al-D¥n Sh¥råz¥. See S.adrå,
Mullå
S.adrå, Mullå, 5, 22, 23, 34, 37, 40,
46, 49, 52, 68, 73, 78, 97, 116, 131,
150, 162, 163, 167, 176, 179, 180,
189, 193–194, 197, 199, 221, 204,
207, 209, 212, 214, 215, 223–233,
236, 237, 240, 242, 276, 284n12,
291n51, 292n7, 294n11, 298n29,
298n31, 301n13, 303n14, 315n10,
321n21, 326n15, 327n30, 328n2;
acceptance of unity, gradation,
and principiality of wuj¶d by, 80;
acquaintance with important
theologians, 53; attack on basis of
kalåm by, 55; development of al-
÷ikmat al-ilåhiyyah and, 51;
familiarity with Khafr¥, 203;
identification of wuj¶d with light,
80; on importance of power of
imagination in knowledge, 100;
integration of heritage of kalåm in
works of, 55; Kasr al-aƒnåm aljåhiliyyah
of, 54; in Safavid period,
87–88, 88; sayings of Shi‘ite
Imams in works of, 109; on
structure of reality, 80; School of
Isfahan and, 74, synthesis of, 94;
traditional Islamic conception of
history of philosophy by, 107;
transcendent theosophy of, 53, 77;
on truth of the position of aČlat
al-wuj¶d, 79; understanding of
wa÷dat al-wuj¶d, 76–77