A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationism : : Light in the Cave / / Tianyi Zhang.

Tianyi Zhang offers in this study an innovative philosophical reconstruction of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī’s (d. 1191) Illuminationism. Commonly portrayed as either a theosophist or an Avicennian in disguise, Suhrawardī appears here as an original and hardheaded philosopher who adopts mysticism...

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationism : Light in the Cave / Tianyi Zhang.
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Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 17
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Preliminary Material / Tianyi Zhang -- Copyright page / Tianyi Zhang / Tianyi Zhang -- Acknowledgements / Tianyi Zhang -- Notes on Abbreviations and Translations / Tianyi Zhang -- Introduction The Cave Story: Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist Project / Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 1 From Four Peripatetic-Style Works to Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq / Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 2 Presential Knowledge and the Nature of Illuminationist Philosophy / Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 3 On Mental Considerations: Univocal Existence / Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 4 On Other Mental Considerations / Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 5 On Light Metaphysics: An Analysis of Book I of the Second Part of Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq / Tianyi Zhang -- Conclusion / Tianyi Zhang -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Tianyi Zhang -- Index / Tianyi Zhang.
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Tianyi Zhang offers in this study an innovative philosophical reconstruction of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī’s (d. 1191) Illuminationism. Commonly portrayed as either a theosophist or an Avicennian in disguise, Suhrawardī appears here as an original and hardheaded philosopher who adopts mysticism as a tool for philosophical investigation. Zhang makes use of Plato’s cave allegory to explain Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist project. Focusing on three areas—the theory of presential knowledge, the ontological discussion of mental considerations, and Light Metaphysics—Zhang convincingly reveals the Nominalist and Existential nature of Illuminationism and thereby proposes a new way of understanding how Suhrawardī’s central philosophical ideas cohere.
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Humanism Europe History 16th century. 
Natural law Europe History 16th century. 
Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152 or 1153-1191.
Print version: ZHANG, Tianyi A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī's Illuminationism Boston : BRILL,c2022
Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 17.
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Tianyi Zhang -- Introduction The Cave Story: Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist Project /
Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 1 From Four Peripatetic-Style Works to Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq /
Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 2 Presential Knowledge and the Nature of Illuminationist Philosophy /
Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 3 On Mental Considerations: Univocal Existence /
Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 4 On Other Mental Considerations /
Tianyi Zhang -- Chapter 5 On Light Metaphysics: An Analysis of Book I of the Second Part of Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq /
Tianyi Zhang -- Conclusion /
Tianyi Zhang -- Back Matter -- Bibliography /
Tianyi Zhang -- Index /
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