Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination

Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi, also known as Shaikh al-ishraq or the Master of Illumination, lived in the sixth century AH / twelfth century CE.His thoughts form a consistent and coherent philosophical system, and a close study of his writings in Persian reveals a theory of knowledge generally called ''Knowledge by Presence''. The elaborate web of myth and symbolism in Suhrawardi''s philosophy ar...