Abstract

Tehran's School of Philosophy was founded by Mulla Abdollah Modarres Zonuzi who himself became the school's first teacher of Sadr-ul-Muta'allehin's philosophy 182 years ago. Zonuzi learned wisdom and philosophy from Mulla Ali Nouri and his interpretations of Mulla Sadra's books, Asfar in particular, both highy credited among the contemporary Islamic philosophers.The Tehran school of Gnosis was established by Aqa Seyyed Razi Larijani who, too, was a brilliant student of Mulla Ali Nouri. Banished and excommunicated by the jurists of Isfahan, Aqa Seyyed Razi attended Mulla Ali Nouri's transcendent wisdom classes in Tehran and worked on Peripateticism at the same time. The two schools which are often regarded as one further flourished when several renowned philosophers and gnostics of Isfahan and Sabzewar migrated to Tehran and later helped found similar schools in other cities such as Qom and Najaf.