Illuminationism

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 a Rising Sun" is a philosophical in addition to mystical school of thought featured by Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi honorific: Shaikh al-ʿIshraq or Shaikh-i-Ishraq, both meaning "Master of Illumination" in the twelfth century, defining with his Kitab Hikmat al-Ishraq lit: "Book of the Wisdom of Illumination", a fundamental text finished in 1186. sum with influence from Avicennism, Peripateticism, and Neoplatonism, the philosophy is nevertheless distinct as a novel and holistic addition to the history of Islamic philosophy.

Key concepts

In his Philosophy of Illumination, Suhrawardi argued that light operates at all levels and hierarchies of reality PI, 97.7–98.11. Light produces immaterial and substantial lights, including immaterial intellects angels, human and animal souls, and even 'dusky substances', such(a) as bodies.

Suhrawardi's metaphysics is based on two principles. The number one is a cause of the principle of sufficient reason. Theprinciple is Aristotle's principle that an actual infinity is impossible.

The essential meaning of ishrāq Persian اشراق, Arabic: الإشراق is "rising", specifically referring to the sunrise, though "illumination" is the more common translation. It has used both Arabic and Persian philosophical texts as means to signify the representation between the “apprehending subject” al-mawżuʿ al-modrek and the “apprehensible object” al-modrak; beyond philosophical discourse, it is a term used in common discussion. Suhrawardi utilized the ordinariness of the word in appearance to encompass the all that is mystical along with an design of different kinds of knowledge, including elhām, meaning personal inspiration.