Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Kitāb al-Mashāʿir
Mulla Sadra's 'Kitāb al-Mashāʿir' — concise statement of his metaphysics of wujūd (existence)
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Kitāb al-Mashāʿir (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | Curved |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Energy · Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Kitāb al-Mashāʿir
Mid-17th century. Mulla Sadra was active 1571-1640; the Kitāb al-Mashāʿir likely dates from his mid-career.
Space
Kitāb al-Mashāʿir
Shiraz (Sadra's home city, where he returned after Isfahan and Qom periods) / Qom (where Sadra taught for years).
Matter
Kitāb al-Mashāʿir
Concise Arabic philosophical treatise (~80 pages in standard editions). Form is sustained systematic philosophical argument with internal sections.
Observer
Kitāb al-Mashāʿir
Mature Mulla Sadra. The observer-philosopher is at the height of his constructive philosophical work, articulating the Transcendent Theosophy that synthesises Avicennan philosophy, Suhrawardian Illuminationism, Ibn ʿArabian mysticism, and Shīʿī theological resources.
Energy
Kitāb al-Mashāʿir
Mature Sadrian-philosophical energies. The Mashāʿir is the most concentrated short statement of the Sadrian philosophical position.
Information
Kitāb al-Mashāʿir
Single compact treatise. The three central doctrines (primacy of existence / gradational unity of existence / substantial motion) are set out in their definitive Sadrian form.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Mulla Sadra's most accessible compact statement of his metaphysics. Continuously studied in the Iranian-Islamic philosophical tradition (especially within the contemporary Iranian philosophical schools) and increasingly in Anglophone Islamic-philosophical scholarship since Henry Corbin's mid-twentieth-century recovery of Sadrian thought.