Tehran – The birth anniversary of Iranian philosopher and founder of Iranian illumination school Sheikh Shahavedin Solebardi was named Zanjan Day (July 30) in the Iranian calendar. This is considered a day of cultural and scientific activities in the field of Gnosis and philosophy.
Shahabeddin Yahya Ibn Habash Sohrevardi (1154–1191) was a Persian philosopher and founder of the Iranian Illumination School, an important school of Islamic philosophy. The light in his “lighting philosophy” is a source of knowledge, Mehr’s news agency wrote.
He is featured in the prestigious title, Shaikh al-Ishrak, “The Master of Lighting.” Mulla Sadra, a Persian sage in the Safavid era, considered Sohrevardi as “the resurrector of the traces of the sage (Iranian)” and, in Magnum Opus’s “the philosophy of lighting,” as a resurrector or resuscitator of the ancient traditions of Persian Wisdion. Sohrevardi offered a new platonic critique of Avicenna’s perianist school, dominating in his time, and whose critique was related to the fields of logic, physics, epistemology, psychology, and metaphysics.
His life spans for less than 40 years, during which he produced a series of works that established him as the founder of a new philosophy called “Ilminism” (Hikumat al-Ishrak). According to Henry Corbyn, Solevaldi “later became known as the Master of Lighting (Shaikh y Islak). In 1186, at the age of 32, he completed the Magnum Opus “The Philosophy of Lighting.”
Solevaldi was a powerful defender of Zhou Ming philosophy until he was influenced by those who “traveled in the path of God”, Hermes (Thos) from Egypt, the Pythagoras the Phoenicians, and those who, as in the Persian tradition, described as those who “traveled in the path of God”, as in the form of the Persian tradition. His philosophical project aims to revive the lost twigs in the East and West.
Sohrevardi taught a complex and profound divergent cosmology in which all creation is a continuous runoff from the original highest light (nur al-Anwar).
The basis of his philosophy is pure immaterial light, unfolding from the light of light in descending order of intensity that is unclear and constantly promoted, producing an array of horizontal lines that resemble the platonic forms that govern Mundan’s reality through complex interactions. In other words, the universe and all levels of beings are light and darkness, that is, to varying degrees of light. In his body division, he classifies objects in terms of their acceptance or non-receptiveness of light.
Sohrevardi considers previous existence to all souls in the angel realm before descent into the body realm. The soul is divided into two parts, one remaining in heaven and the other descending into the body dungeon. Human souls are always sad because they are divorced from the other half. Therefore, it aims to be reunited with it. The soul can only reach Felicity again when it is united with the heavenly parts that remain in heaven. He believes that the soul should seek felicity by separating itself from its sincere body and secular issues and accessing an unimportant world of light. After leaving their bodies, the Gnostic and saint souls climb further above the angel world, enjoying being close to the highest light, the only absolute reality.
Solevaldi detailed the neoplatonic ideas of an imaginary world, an independent middle world. His views have had a strong influence to this day, especially combining Mulla Sadra’s account of the real-life lighting theorists.
Sohrevardi’s illuminationist project had a strong influence on subsequent esoteric Iranian thinking, and the idea of “decisive necessity” is considered to be one of the most important innovations in the history of logical philosophical speculations emphasized by most Muslim logicians and philosophers.
Solevaldi was born in 1154 in Solevad, a village between the town of Zanjan and Bihargars in Iran.
Introducing Zanjang
Located on the Commercial Silk Road and the Transitway in Iran and Europe, Zanjan is 338km from Tehran and is a strategic city in that it links Iran’s central parts, west and northwest.
Zanjang is a mountainous region, and its climate is characterized by cold, snowy weather in the mountains and moderate climate in the winter plains. In summer, the weather is warm.
Filigree’s world city
Zanjan has been designated as the “Filigree World Cities” by the World Crafts Council.
Filigrees are made up of knits of curls, twisted or fine, flexible metal yarns (particularly silver) that are soldered on metal foundations at points in contact with each other.
Handmade knife
Zanjang’s stainless steel handmade knife is well known in Iran due to the fine patterns on the handle and lining.
Copper Smith
The outstanding Copper Smith Craft has a long and sparkling history in Zanjan, featuring a specific motif engraved on a variety of copper products. The history of Zanjang’s copper crafts dates back over a thousand years and back to the Sassanid period.
Soltany Dome
Back 700 years ago, the Soltanyer Dome is one of the province’s most exceptional and famous Islamic sites commissioned by the old Soltanyer city (Orgiate), the capital of the Il Honeydo dynasty from 1302 to 1312 to 1302 to 1302.
The historic and spectacular building at Soltangier’s Dome is the world’s largest brick dome and the third tallest dome in the world, being listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005.
Colorful mountains of Money Shan
While traveling to the west of Zanjang, unusual colorful mountains and clay hills of red, brown, green, orange, yellow and white catch everyone’s eyes.
The breathtaking views of these mountains are also a great choice for photographers and mountaineers.
Located in Maneshan County, Zanjan, these incredible mountains are called “Ara Doug Lah” by locals.
Zanjang Anthropology Museum
The historic buildings at Zanjan Wash House are dubbed locally with Lakshuihane and lie in the historic texture of Zanjan city, built in the near 20th century during the Kajal period.
In ancient times there were no washing machines, so most people in Zanjang went to the river to wash their clothes and dishes. Therefore, women washed their home clothes in closed spaces and built free of charge during the harsh winters of that era.
Now, Rakhtshoooy Khaneh transforms into anthropological museum, and in ancient times you can find sculptures of the people of Zanjan. These sculptures hold laundry equipment and in the old days wear local clothes of the Zanjan people.
Salt Men’s Museum (Zolfaghari Mansion)
Six mummies were discovered at the Cherabad Salt Mine in southern Zanjan in 1993. The salt-hardened mummies (returning to the Achemenid and Sassanid eras) were actually ancient bodies that were killed or crushed in caves, and were killed in extreme conditions, allowing hair and hair to build nests.
One of the mentioned saltmen was transferred to the Iranian National Museum in Tehran (all of which are publicly visible), the last saltmen remains in existence, half stuck in a mountain of salt.
The other four salt-cured mummies are kept at Zanjan Archaeological Museum, known as the Solfahari Mansion, in the heart of Zanjan city, along the north side of Sabze Meidan Square.
Zanjang’s Historic Bazaar
The traditional Zanjan bazaar was founded in 1784 under the direction of Aqa Mohmmad Khan Qajar and completed in 1792, the longest covered market in Iran.
The bazaar consists of two parts: Bazaar e Bazaar (Upper Bazaar) and Bazaar e Peyen (Bottom Bazaar), divided into sections that differ depending on the occupation and product.
Two mosques, namely Aqa Sheikh Fayyaz Mosque and Mirza Mosque, two caravan saries of Serai Malek, and two public buses, Serai Golshan and two public buses, are also present in this bazaar.
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