Document Type : Scientific extension

Author

• sima Sadat noorbakhsh

professor

Abstract

Suhrawardῑ does not consider the Peripatetic method of definition to be valid for knowledge. Also, the desired goal of Illuminative (ishrāqῑ) knowledge is a kind of complete knowledge that is known with certainty. This knowledge is only the knowledge of the essence that has united with the unchanging, eternal forms. For Suhrawardῑ, the stringent philosophical conditions for the possibility of knowledge were not unprecedented. According to him, formal validity is determined by discursive wisdom. However, he distinguishes discursive knowledge from intuitive knowledge, considering the latter to be superior. According to Suhrawardῑ, the subject’s experience is the most valid type of knowledge, which he calls a “sāniḥ e nūrῑ”. This knowledge refers to mystical experience. According to Suhrawardῑ, this experience is the basis for the emergence of discursive philosophy and is methodically created with demonstration. The validity of these syllogistic arguments depends on the experience of the subject. According to him, man does not analyze a thing to know it, but rather gains knowledge by intuitively understanding the overall reality and then intuitively analyzing it. That is, philosophy of illumination (ḥikmat al-ishrāq) is based on observations and mystical experiences of the whole reality, not on the definition of numerous things in reality. Suhrawardῑ’s theory of definition reflects the basis of [Illuminationist] epistemological viewpoint.

Keywords

• Illuminationist knowledge"
• Suhrawardῑ"
• intuition"
• Observation"
• "
• Self-Knowledge"

Main Subjects

• philosophy