The philosophy of illumination : a new critical edition of the text of Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq

Author(s)

• Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152 or 3
• Walbridge, John Tuthill
• Ziai, Hossein

Bibliographic Information

The philosophy of illumination : a new critical edition of the text of Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq

Suhrawardī ; with English translation, notes, commentary, and introduction by John Walbridge & Hossein Ziai

（Islamic translation series, Al-Ḥikma）

Brigham Young University Press, 1999

• : cloth

Other Title

حكمة الاشراق

Note

Pages [1]-163 -- Opposite pages bear duplicate numbering

Bibliographical references: p. 203-206

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi was born around 1154, probably in Northwestern Iran. Spurred by a dream in which Aristotle appeared to him, he rejected the Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy of his youth and undertook the task of reviving the philosophical tradition of the "Ancients." His philosophy grants an epistemological role to immediate and atemporal intuition. It is explicitly anti-Peripatetic and is identified with the pre-Aristotelian sages, particularly Plato.

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Details

• NCID: BA4897841X
• ISBN:
  • 0842524576
• LCCN: 99051000
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engara
• Original Language Code: ara
• Place of Publication: Provo, Utah
• Pages/Volumes: xliii, 218 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BP188.9
  • DC21 : 181/.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152- or 3-1191. Ḥikmat al-ishrāq
  • LCSH : Sufism -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA48978384