Re-reading  the theory «Illuminationist Knowledge» from Suhrawardi,s point of view

Tahmasebi, Maryam; Zahabi, Abbas; Beheshti, Ahmad

doi:10.30465/cw.2023.42174.1919

Re-reading the theory «Illuminationist Knowledge» from Suhrawardi,s point of view

Document Type : Biannual Journal

Authors

Maryam Tahmasebi ¹

Abbas Zahabi ²

Ahmad Beheshti ³

¹ PhD Student in Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

² Department of philasophy, Faculty of Law, Theology, and political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran

³ Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Theology , University of Tehran,, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/cw.2023.42174.1919

Abstract

Shihab al-Din yahya Suhrawardi, illuminationist philosopher, explaining his epistemological views, proposed a new point of view that known as illuminationist relation and in this way he considers the acquisition of many perceptions, including vision, of through of intuitive knowledge.The present research focuses on the nature of knowledge by presence and its role in the problem of “vision.” It considers the following key question: Does Suhrawardī mean the same thing by “knowledge by presence” in all degrees of perception from the most primitive external levels—that is, vision—to the deeper levels? Then, given his epistemic model, can we treat him as a phenomenologist? The present article considers the nature of knowledge by presence in the process of vision according to Suhrawardī and presents a different approach to it. By reference to Suhrawardī’s discussion of issues of vision and a conceptual clarification of “presence,” we show that Suhrawardī could not have used the term “knowledge by presence” in the case of vision in its common sense as opposed to “knowledge by acquisition” (al-ʿilm al-ḥuṣūlī). Instead, this is a different notion, and thus the term is equivocally used in his work. Moreover, we argue that his epistemological model for vision is phenomenological. The method of research in the present article is qualitative and analytic

Keywords

Illuminationist Knowledge

Intuitive Knowledge

‌Illuminationist relation

Definition

Sight

Suhrawardi

Subjects

Philosophy

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