The Philosophy of Illumination by Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, John Walbridge, Hossein Ziai

The Philosophy of Illumination

Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, John Walbridge, Hossein Ziai

323 pages first pub 1357 (editions)

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Shihäb 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 philosophi...

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