The Evolution of Transcendental Wisdom from Safavid to Pahlavi and Its Impact on the Political Thought of the Islamic Revolution
Volume 14, Issue 3, Autumn 2025, Pages 241-271
nasrollah Nakhaei zarandi, Yahya Fozi, Sayyed Sadrodin Mousavi Jashni, Giti poorzaki
Abstract Transcendental wisdom, which was proposed by Mulla Sadra during the Safavid era, was able to find a special place in the theoretical and practical arena in the intellectual system of Muslims and thinkers and scholars of the Islamic Revolution by combining reason, narration, and intuition, and presenting a harmonious system of epistemology and ontology. In this article, an attempt has been made to examine the process of spreading, expanding, and evolving transcendental wisdom from the Safavid era to the Islamic Revolution by using the descriptive method and collecting information through documentary and library methods, as well as applying the diffusion theory. The questions of this research are: What are the contexts and grounds for the growth and expansion of transcendental wisdom? Who are the bearers of this thought during this four-hundred-year period? What obstacles and challenges has the path of transcendental wisdom from the Safavid era to the Islamic Revolution been faced with? And how has the infinity of this philosophical thought influenced the Islamic Revolution?
The findings of the research show that transcendental wisdom from the Safavids to the Islamic Revolution was mainly carried out through non-hierarchical dissemination, with various ups and downs, and by a set of carriers. In the course of this process, news and anti-rational thoughts on the one hand and secular thoughts influenced by Western modernity on the other hand have been among the important challenges of this thought. The thinkers of transcendental wisdom, by seriously criticizing these two intellectual streams and benefiting from their positive points, succeeded in presenting a middle model based on selection and possession in confronting ideas. Which is based on dualities such as the connection between this world and the afterlife, the connection between justice and freedom,

