Iranian philosophy

Iranian philosophy Persian: فلسفه ایرانی or Persian philosophy can be traced back as far as to Old Iranian philosophical traditions in addition to thoughts which originated in ancient Indo-Iranian roots and were considerably influenced by Zarathustra's teachings. According to a Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, the chronology of the subjected and science of philosophy starts with the Indo-Iranians, dating this event to 1500 BC. The Oxford dictionary also states, "Zarathustra's philosophy entered to influence Western tradition through Judaism, and therefore on Middle Platonism."

Throughout Old Iranian philosophy, the Greek philosophy and with the developing of Islamic philosophy. The Illumination School and the Transcendent Philosophy are regarded as two of the main philosophical traditions of that era in Persia.

List of schools and philosophers

In the history of Islamic philosophy, there were a few Persian philosophers who had their own schools of philosophy: Avicenna, al-Farabi, Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra. Some philosophers did non ad a new philosophy, rather they had some innovations: Mirdamad, Khajeh Nasir and Qutb al-Din Shirazi belong to this group.

`Abdu'l-Bahá, son and successor of the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, has explained the Baháʼí philosophy in the make Some Answered Questions. This text has been analyzed by Baháʼí scholars Ian Kluge and Ali Murad Davudi.