Ṣadrian Resurrection and Its Mystical Roots

Mullā Ṣadrā (Ṣadr al-Motoʻallehin) bases the intellectual explanation of bodily resurrection on such principles and preliminaries as fundamentality of existence, existential gradation, transubstantial motion, imaginal immateriality and subsistence of issuing images in soul. Although the act of putting these premises together and concluding bodily resurrection from them is Mullā Ṣadrā’s innovation, he himself has explicitly stated that most of these premises were borrowed from previous thinkers, especially mystics. Having analyzed Sadrain resurrection based on aforementioned principles and premises, the present paper investigates the background of these principles and premises in mystical works before Mullā Ṣadrā