Suhrawardī
1155 CE – 1191 CElived
Sohrevard, Seljuk Persia
- Illuminationism
Replaced Aristotelian substance with degrees of light as the basic furniture of reality, drawing openly on pre-Islamic Persian thought. Executed at thirty-six, probably for exactly that.
Known for
- philosophy of illumination
- knowledge by presence
- the world of images