Since its dawn, Islamic philosophy has witnessed great philosophers like Farabi, Avicenna, Bahmanyar, Suhrewardi, Mir Damad. However, it was Mulla Sadra who built Islamic philosophy to its great heights. His philosophy which is better known as Transcendent Theosophy not only has caught the eyes of the seasoned scholars of philosophy and mysticism it has also been of interest for different branches of social sciences. Sadra's Transcendent Theosophy in Four Rational Journeys in 9 volumes is this theosopher's magnum opus. During his courses of this major work Ayatollah Jawadi has sought to have the total corpus of Mulla Sadra's works as well as every available work in ontology. 14 volumes of Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli's commentary on Asfar which cover the first two volumes of Sadra's work plus part of the third volume have been published as Wine of Wisdom for the researchers of Islamic Philosophy.

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative Iranian politician and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza in Qom. The official website for his scientific foundation, Isra, describes him as a well-known, outstanding thinker in various fields of Islamic sciences and a distinguished figure in exegesis, jurisprudence, philosophy and mysticism. It is further states that his ideas and views have been reinforcing the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and that "his strategic and enlightening guidance" has been "extremely constructive" during the past three decades.