Tradition
Illuminationism
Overview
Illuminationism (Persian حكمت اشراق hekmat-e eshrāq, Arabic: حكمة الإشراق ḥikmat al-ishrāq, both meaning "Wisdom of the Rising Light"), also known as Ishrāqiyyun or simply Ishrāqi (Persian اشراق, Arabic: الإشراق, lit. "Rising", as in "Shining of the Rising Sun") is a philosophical and mystical school of thought introduced by Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi (honorific: Shaikh al-ʿIshraq or Shaikh-i-Ishraq, both meaning "Master of Illumination") in the twelfth century, established with his Kitab Hikmat al-Ishraq (lit: "Book of the Wisdom of Illumination"), a fundamental text finished in 1186. Written with influence from Avicennism, Peripateticism, and Neoplatonism, the philosophy is nevertheless distinct as a novel and holistic addition to the history of Islamic philosophy.
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The first and most direct outcome of the moment of illumination is belief in the possibility of a way of knowledge which may be called revelation or insight or intuition, as contrasted with sense, reason, and analysis, which are regarded as blind guides leading to the morass of illusion. Closely connected with this belief is the conception of a Reality behind the world of appearance and utterly different from it.
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Close in meaning to Illuminationism; the term itself is not named.
The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man’s education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below. This, however, is an after-stage—at present, we are only concerned with the creation of the body and soul. The two divine courses were encased by the gods in a sphere which is called the head, and is the god and…
Plato, Timaeus
States what Illuminationism is; the author is tied to Illuminationism in the knowledge graph.
Wherefore the sound theory is that the configurations of things stand out in the transparent ambient--if it be effectively transparent on the shining of a luminant upon it--and hence they do not appear but in a polished body capable of receiving them, such as mirrors and the like; and so too there is in the eye a crystalline lens (or humor) into which the forms (pictures) of things are imprinted, just as their…
Avicenna, A Compendium on the Soul
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Philosophers who discussed Illuminationism
- Mulla Sadra
- Islam
- Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi
- Transcendent theosophy
- Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi
- Azar Kayvan
Related ideas
- Honorific
- Avicenna
- Principle of sufficient reason
- Persian language
- Mulla Sadra
- Iran
- Avicennism
- Islamic philosophy
- Early Islamic philosophy
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Angel
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Holism
- Madrasa
- Plato
- Neoplatonism
- Mongol Empire
- Mughal Empire
- Siege of Baghdad
- Henry Corbin
- Iranian philosophy
- Aristotelianism
- Hulegu Khan
- Islamic Golden Age
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Angel
- Honorific
- House of Wisdom
- Hulegu Khan
- Ilkhanate
- Madrasa
- Mongol Empire
- Persian language
- Siege of Baghdad
- Abbas the Great
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Sunrise
- Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi
- The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect
- Iqbal Academy Pakistan
- Jalal al-Din Davani
- Safavid Iran
- Throne Verse
- John Walbridge
- Mir Zahid Harawi
- Zayn al-Din Omar Savaji