ʿAbd-Al-Razzāq B. ʿAlī B. Al-Hosayn Lāhījī (died c. 1072 AH [1662 CE]) was an Iranian theologian, poet and philosopher.W. Madelung, "ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ LĀHĪJĪ" in Encyclopaedia Iranica His mentor in philosophy was his father-in-law Mulla Sadra.
Life Hailing from Lahijan in Gilan, he spent most of his life in Qom. Abd al-Razzaq was a son-in-law of Mulla Sadra along with Molla Mohsen Fayz Kashani.SAJJAD H. RIZVI in Josef Meri, p.531.2006 His son Hasan would become another prominent theologian and philosopher of the Safavid dynasty.Ostadi Reza, Hasan Lahiji and his cradle of certainty, p.88, Mirath Javid Magazine (in Persian) Seyyed Hossein Nasr knows him among the intellectual figures in Persia.Nasr in Expectation of the Millennium : Shiìsm in History, p.165.1989 Abd al-Razzaq was in agreement with Molla Sadra as to the contrast between primacy of quiddity and primacy of existence.Morris Zailan, Revelation, Intellectual Intuition and Reason in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra: An Analysis of the Al-hikmah Al-'arshiyyah, p.196.1392 Ap.
Works Gawhar-e morād (Tehran, 1271 AH), a detailed exposition of his theology Sarmāya-ye īmān Dīvān, a volume of his poetry Tašrīqāt, three treatises on divine unity, justice and love
Teaching and pupils According to Madlung, Abd-Razzaq taught at the Masumieh Madrasah. There his prominent pupils included his sons Hasan and Ebrahim as well as Qazi Saeed Qommi.
Philosophy Lāhīǰī stands at the end of a transition in Islamic scholastic theology in which the thought system of kalam was gradually replaced by that of falsafa, heavily influenced by the school of Avicenna. Lahiji in fact developed a form of Kalam which is hardly distinguishable from Hikmat, although at least in his better known works such as the "Gawhar-e morād" he does not follow the main doctrinal teachings of Mulla Sadra, as on the unity of Being and the catharsis of the faculty of imagination.Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6 - The Timurid and Safavid Periods, p.691
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