Suhrawardi and the school of illumination
By: by Mehdi Amin Razavi.
Series: Curzon Sufi series
Publisher: Curzon Press; RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Richmond, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152 or 3-1191; Ishrāqīyah; Philosophy, Islamic
Description: Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi, also known as Shaikh al-ishraq or the Master of Illumination, lived in the sixth century AH/ twelfth century CE. His thoughts form a consistent and coherent philosophical system, and a close study of his writings in Persian reveals a theory of knowledge generally called 'Knowledge by Presence'. The elaborate web of myth and symbolism in Suhrawardi's philosophy articulates his theory of knowledge, an important subject in the ishraqi school of thought.

Suhrawardi, who claims first to have discovered the truth and then embarked on a path to find the rational basis of his experiential wisdom, represents a thinker who tried to reconcile rational discourse and inner purification.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-170) and index.