Mir Damad

Iranian Shia philosopher

Seyyed Mir Mohammad Baqer Astarabadi (c. 1561 – 1631/1632), commonly known as Mīr Dāmād (Persian: ميرداماد), was an Iranian Twelver Shia philosopher in the Neoplatonizing Islamic Peripatetic traditions of Avicenna. He was a scholar of the traditional Islamic sciences, and foremost figure (together with his student Mulla Sadra) of the cultural renaissance of Iran undertaken under the Safavid dynasty.

From Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA. More on occurri.