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Suhrawardi and the school of illumination

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.

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English
Pages
182

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Suhrawardi and the school of illumination
1997, Curzon Press, RoutledgeCurzon
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-170) and index.

Published in
Richmond, Surrey
Series
Curzon Sufi series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
181/.5
Library of Congress
B753.S83 R38 1997, B753.S83R38 1997, B753.S83 .R38 2013eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 182 p. ;
Number of pages
182

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL762944M
ISBN 10
0700704515, 0700704124
LCCN
97160237
OCLC/WorldCat
878142599, 38174326
Library Thing
195854
Goodreads
4018824
587469

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