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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Superior document:Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 17
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.
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Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 17.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Physical Description:1 online resource (227 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.