al-Ofoq al-Mobin

• Arabic Title: الافق المبین
• English Title: The Clear Horizon
• Author: Amīr Muḥammad Bāqir Astarābādī (Mīr Dāmād) (d. 1041 A.H.)
• Editor: Ḥāmid Nājī Iṣfahānī
• Language: Arabic
• ISBN: 978-203-600-056-6
• Publication Year: 2012
• Pages: 877
• Format: PDF
• Category: Islamic Philosophy and Theology
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 246

【Summary】

al-Ufuq al-Mubīn is the most comprehensive and ambitious philosophical work of Amīr Muḥammad Bāqir Astarābādī, widely known as Mīr Dāmād, a central figure of the Safavid philosophical revival and a leading representative of the School of Isfahan. According to written authorizations preserved from Mīr Dāmād and addressed to his distinguished student and son-in-law Amīr Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlawī, this work was taught directly by the author, attracting students from Iran and the Indian subcontinent.

The treatise was originally conceived as a two-part work (ṣarḥa). All extant manuscripts preserve only the first part, which is devoted to general metaphysical principles (al-umūr al-ʿāmma). The second part, intended to address divine and theological matters, appears to have been planned but has not survived.

As a systematic exposition of metaphysics integrating Avicennan philosophy, illuminationist elements, and Mīr Dāmād’s own innovative doctrines—most notably his theory of perpetual origination (ḥudūth dahrī)—al-Ufuq al-Mubīn stands as a cornerstone of early modern Islamic philosophy and a foundational text for subsequent generations of Shiʿi philosophers.