The Elixir of the Gnostics Budget cookery Thinking against the grain

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The Elixir of the Gnostics Budget cookery Thinking against the grainSadr al Din Muhammad Shirazi (1572 1640), more commonly called Mulla Sadra, was one of the grand scholars of later period Islamic philosophy and has grown to become one of the best known Muslim philosophers. Iksir al 'arifin, or Elixir of the Gnostics, is unique among Sadra's writings in that it reworks and amplifies an earlier Persian work, the Jawidan nama (Book of the Everlasting) by Afdal al Din Kashani, or Baba Afdal. The underlying theme of