Safavid renaissance. Shi'ite law and theology were revived leading finally to the composition of the immense religious encyclopedia, the Bihar al-anwar, composed by Muhammad Baqir Majlisi. Shi'ite religious and metaphysical doctrines found some of their most outstanding expositors in Mir Damad, Baha' al-Din al-'Amill, one of the many Shi'ites from Jabal 'Amil in Lebanon who had come to Persia, and Sadr al-Din Shirazi, usually known as Mulla Sadra. This last named, who is perhaps the greatest Islamic philosopher or more correctly theosopher (hakim), founded a new intellectual dimension in Islam, combining the teachings of Ibn 'Arabi, Suhrawardi, Ibn SIna and Nasir al-Din in the texture of Shi'ism.

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