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"In the recent period, philosophy in the seminaries of Qum witnessed great scholars who had an important effect on the philosophical and political thinking of the Islamic world similar to previous periods when philosophers such Mulla Sadra and his students played a major role in the Safavid Era. Ayatullah Sayyed Abulhasan Rafi’i Qazwini (1310-1395 AH) was among the pioneers of the philosophical movement in the seminaries.
6 In the present period, philosophy has become one of the main fields of study in the seminaries; many books have been written on the subject, such as Usul-e Falsafe wa Rawesh-e Realism (Principles of Philosophy and Method of Realism), Bidayat al-Hikmah (The Beginning of Philosophy), and Nihayat al-Hikmah (The End of Philosophy) by Allamah Tabataba’i, Harakat wa Zaman (Motion and Time) by Ayatollah Mutahhari, Rahighe Makhtum by Ayatullah Javadi Amuli and Amuzesh-e Falsafe by Ayatullah Misbah Yazdi.
Such examples include Tafseer al-Mizan by Allameh Sayyed Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, one of the most renowned exegesis books using this method; Tafseer Nemuneh, the work of a group of scholars from the Qum seminaries under the supervision of Ayatullah Makarim Shirazi, also translated to many languages; and Tasneem by Ayatullah Javadi Amuli.
In the third era, although the seminaries underwent an overall recession, there are available works written on jurisprudence, such as Fiqh ul-Qur’an by Saeed ibn Abdullah Qutb ud-Din Rawandi (573 AH) who left Kashan to reside in Qum. In the recent periods, Mirza Qummi (1151–1231 AH) made enormous efforts to develop this field."