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Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi was born around 1154, probably in
northwestern Iran. Spurred by a dream in which Aristotle appeared
to him, he rejected the Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy of his
youth and undertook the task of reviving the philosophical
tradition of the "Ancients."
Suhruwardi's philosophy grants an epistemological role to immediate
and atemporal intuition. It is explicitly anti-Peripatetic and is
identified with the pre-Aristotelian sages, particularly Plato. The
subject of his "hikmat al-Ishraq"--now available for the first time
in English--is the "science of lights," a science that Suhrawardi
first learned through mystical exercises reinforced later by
logical proofs and confirmed by what he saw as the parallel
experiences of the Ancients. It was completed on 15 September 1186;
and at sunset that evening, in the western sky, the sun, the moon,
and the five visible planets came together in a magnificent
conjunction in the constellation of Libra. The stars soon turned
against Suhrawardi, however, who was reluctantly put to death by
the son of Saladin, the sultan of Egypt, in 1191.
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