An Investigation into the Views of Mulla Rajabali Tabrizi in Asl al-Asail

Molla Rajebali is one of the philosophers of Isfahan School who has taught many students. Unlike the other philosophical school of Isfahan, Mirdamad and his students, he and his disciples believed the theories that their religious and neo-platonic roots were more specific. He argued the verbal sharing of existence, the supernatural existence of God, the originality of nature, the denial of mental existence, the denial of substantial motion, the renewal of the likenesses, the physical creation of soul, and so on. The book “Asl al-Asail” is like a pamphlet, which includes the philosophers’ views and ideas. His purpose from writing “Asl al-Asail” is the “al-Wahid la Yasdar al-Wahid” principle. Tabrizi introduces this principle as the main source of theories such as the possibility of the transcendence, the rule of the possibility of Ashraf, and so on. He spoke of seven principles and, in some cases, on derivatives of one principle. In this dissertation, I will focus more on his opinions and will endeavor to explain these views.