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al-Suhrawardī, Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā al-Maqtūl

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Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (d. Aleppo, c. 1191) is a mystical philosopher who founded a new tradition in Islamic thought, that of Ishrāqī (“Illuminationism”). This term applies first to a new method: Suhrawardī introduces illumination or knowledge by the presence as the foundation of a sounder way to apprehend the universe and ourselves. Ishrāqī is also a new understanding of what is conceived of as the participation of all that is in one fundamental reality, Light. Suhrawardī’s thought had a lasting influence on later Islamic speculative tradition, especially in the East, as an alternative trend to the “Peripatetic” tradition represented by thinkers such as Avicenna.

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Bonmariage, C. (2011). al-Suhrawardī, Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā al-Maqtūl. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_476

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