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Here are two excerpts from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Sadr al-Din Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Yahya Qawami Shirazi (ca. 1571–1636) is arguably the most significant Islamic philosopher after Avicenna. Best known as Mulla Sadra, he was later given the title of Sadr al-Muta’allihin (Master of the theosists) for his approach to philosophy that combined an interest in theology and drew upon insights from mystical intuition
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mulla-sadra/

Mulla Sadra wrote over forty-five works. His magnum opus, al-Hikma al-muta‘aliya fi-l-asfar al-‘aqliyya al-arba‘a, known as al-Asfar al-arba‘a (The Four Journeys), is a large compendium of philosophy and theology that, instead of following the traditional divisions of logic, physics, and metaphysics, maps intellectual inquiry upon a mystical metaphor of the soul's journey in this world. Hence it is popularly known as the Four Journeys. He began writing it in 1015 AH/1606 in Kahak and completed it in Shiraz in 1038 AH/1638
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mulla-sadra/#Wor

For those interested, a pdf excerpt of the chapter of Mulla Sadra in 'A History of Muslim Philosophers' can be found here http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hmp/XLV ... -eight.pdf