Illumination - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Illumination - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Kaukua, Jari

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062259
Doc. NO	:	ALei2656
Main Entry	:	Kaukua, Jari
Title & Author	:	Illumination - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Kaukua, Jari
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,410 words)
Abstract	:	Illumination (ishrāq) is a term of art in the philosophical system introduced by al-Suhrawardī (d. 587/1191). It usually occurs in adjectival form (ishrāqī) , characterising immediate knowledge as well as arguments and principles that are grounded in immediate knowledge and that depart from the Peripatetic philosophy of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, d. 428/1037). In this form, it became the name for Suhrawardī’s philosophy in the subsequent tradition. In his preface to the Ḥikmat al-ishrāq (“The philosophy of illumination”), the foundational work of illuminationist philosophy, al-Suhrawardī sketches
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2656.pdf