The 'Isfahan School' (
Persian: ' مكتب اصفهان ') is a well known discipline in
Islamic philosophy and is usually called a Renaissance in Islamic Philosophy. It was found by many famous
Persian philosophers, most notably
Mir Damad,
Sheykh Bahaee and
Mir Fendereski.
During the
Safavid Dynasty in
Iran, and because of the particular attention of
Shah Abbas to intellectual tradition in
Islam,
Isfahan became the most famous academic city and intellectual center of Iran in that time, along with other cities like
Rayy and
Shiraz. In this time, many new and innovative disciplines arose out in Islamic Philosophy. The most notable figures of this era are
Mir Damad and his student
Mulla Sadra