Suhrawardi

E384748

Suhrawardi was a 12th-century Persian philosopher and mystic best known as the founder of the Illuminationist (Ishrāqī) school, which synthesized Peripatetic philosophy with ancient Iranian and Platonic ideas.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Suhrawardi canonical 4
Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic philosopher
Persian philosopher
founder of philosophical school
mystic
person
philosopher
associatedWith Aleppo
Seljuk
surface form: Seljuk period
birthCentury 12th century
coreConcept hierarchy of lights
knowledge by presence
light as fundamental reality
union of rational philosophy and mystical intuition
deathCentury 12th century
era High Middle Ages
ethnicity Persian
field epistemology
metaphysics
mystical philosophy
honorificName Shaykh al-Ishraq
influenced Mulla Sadra
Safavid-era Iranian philosophers
later Illuminationist philosophers
influencedBy Aristotle
Neoplatonism
Plato
ancient Iranian thought
knownFor Ishrāqī philosophy
founding the Illuminationist school of philosophy
synthesizing Peripatetic philosophy with Platonic ideas
synthesizing Peripatetic philosophy with ancient Iranian ideas
languageOfWriting Arabic
Persian language
surface form: Persian
legacy major figure in the Ishrāqī tradition of Islamic philosophy
mainActivity mysticism
philosophy
name Suhrawardi self-linksurface differs
surface form: Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi
notableWork The Philosophy of Illumination
Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq
philosophicalSchoolFounded Illuminationism
Ishrāqī school
philosophicalTradition Illuminationist philosophy
Islamic philosophy
Peripatetic philosophy
region Iran
religion Islam
viewOnAncientWisdom saw continuity between Greek and ancient Iranian wisdom
viewOnKnowledge emphasized intuitive and illuminative knowledge
viewOnReality reality structured as degrees of light and darkness

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Avicenna influenced Suhrawardi
Henry Corbin influencedBy Suhrawardi
Mulla Sadra influencedBy Suhrawardi
Suhrawardi name Suhrawardi self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi