Editing Department

Mulla Sadra has left about 40 books and treatises from himself. Some of these works are very important and well-known to the world. Unfortunately, they have been published full of errors and in an inappropriate form, and some of them are quite rare. This issue has bothered philosophy experts and researchers for a long time.

Fortunately, the Sadra Islamic Philosophy Institute decided to critically edit these books and publish them in the best form possible. In order to accomplish this task, it founded a new department mainly devoted to this goal.

In line with the previously set programs, the Institute initially tried to identify the handwritten copies. In this way, it developed a list of Mulla Sadra’s books based on the information provided by personal and public libraries possessing treasures of manuscripts. In the long run, the Institute managed to identify a big collection of invaluable manuscripts of Mulla Sadra’s works and obtained many of them. Later, based on the inventory of these manuscripts, which contained the names of more than 40 books or treatises, the Institute located them in the list of other libraries. The Editing Secretariat, affiliated with SIPRIn, by providing the details about some of the unlisted copies in public and private libraries, has helped experts in developing a comprehensive bibliography of Mulla Sadra’s works.

According to experts, this philosopher has about 42 books and treatises. Some treatises are also attributed to him. Some of the available manuscripts belong to Mulla Sadra himself, which is of great help in the accurate edition of these works. 

Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute (SIPRIn)
Building no. 12, Imam Khomeini Complex,
Resalat Highway, Tehran, Iran.
P.O.BOX 15875-6919,
Tel: 0098 21 8734686-9
Fax: 0098 21 8831817 -  0098 21 8153389
E-mail: Mullasadra@dpimail.net
Site: www.mullasadra.org