TY - BOOK ID - 134669935 TI - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationism PY - 2023 SN - 9789004527744 9789004523715 PB - Leiden ;Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Jus gentium (Roman law) KW - Humanism KW - Natural law KW - Roman influences.  KW - History KW - Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, KW - Roman influences. . UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134669935 AB - Tianyi Zhang offers in this study an innovative philosophical reconstruction of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī’s (d. 1191) Illuminationism. Commonly portrayed as either a theosophist or an Avicennian in disguise, Suhrawardī appears here as an original and hardheaded philosopher who adopts mysticism as a tool for philosophical investigation. Zhang makes use of Plato’s cave allegory to explain Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist project. Focusing on three areas—the theory of presential knowledge, the ontological discussion of mental considerations, and Light Metaphysics—Zhang convincingly reveals the Nominalist and Existential nature of Illuminationism and thereby proposes a new way of understanding how Suhrawardī’s central philosophical ideas cohere. ER -