قاضي سعيد قمي يكي از حكماي حوزه فلسفي اصفهان

Qadi Said Qumi: One of the Sages of the Philosophical Center of Isfahan

In the Past a number of different schools of philosophy emerged in Isfahan. On the one hand, there was the one having Mulla Sadra as its pioneer and leading figure, introducing a collection of unprecedented issues and ideas at that time; on the other hand, there was another school of philosophy which was against Mulla Sadraʹs ideas and had Shaykh Rajab Ali Tabrizi at its top. This philosopher and his students did everything in their power to oppose Mulla Sadraʹs theories and ideas. Qadi Said Qumi, who was among the well-known thinkers of the philosophical center of Isfahan, was completely familiar with these two schools of philosophy and, at the same time, did not consider himself as an advocate of any of them. In the light of his belief in the principiality or quiddity, as well as his emphasis on the difference between the existence or God and that of other existents, he rejected any commensurability between God and human beings. At the same time, however, he viewed all existents of the world of possibility as being connected to each other and having the same origin. Qadi Said Qumi, through relying on the negation of attributes, refered all Godʹs positive attributes back to negation; nevertheless, instead of using the language of negation, he employed the language of affirmation. Qumiʹs strategy plays an effective role in solving the complex problem of the relation between the reality and history.