A UNIVERSE IN CONSTANT CHANGE: MULLA SADRA AND TRANSUBSTANTIAL CHANGE

Mulla Sadra Shirazi (c. 1571/2 – 1640)

is universally recognised as the most

preeminent Muslim philosopher of

the past five centuries. This book is an

interpretation of one of the central

themes of Mulla Sadra’s philosophy of

existence known as ‘transubstantial

change’. It provides, for the first time

in English, a comprehensive analysis

of transubstantial change in light of

Sadrian ontology and its impact on

some philosophical issues such as

identity, values, and truth. As the author

elucidates, in transubstantial change

nothing is indestructible and everything

in the world, including substance, is in

constant renewal.

Muhammad Kamal is a senior lecturer

at the Faculty of Arts at the University

of Melbourne. He has written extensively

on the thoughts and ideas of Hegel,

Heidegger, and Mulla Sadra. He is also

the author of Mulla Sadra’s Transcendent

Philosophy (2006), and From Essence to

Being: The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra and

Martin Heidegger (2010).