The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical Treatises

The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical Treatises

Ishrāqīyah
Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1800
Sufism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800

"Shihabuddin Suhrawardi (Sohravardi in Persian), known as maqtul (killed) because he was executed in Aleppo in 1191, is a figure of major importance in the development of Iranian and Islamic philosophical mysticism. In this volume, nine of his short symbolic treatises of mixed mystical and philosophical contents are presented in a bilingual edition with the original Persian and an annotated English translation, together with an introduction to Suhrawardi's thought. The founder and master of the Illuminationist (Ishraq) school of philosophy, Suhrawardi treats the path to mystical truth both as an outward journey through the macrocosm of the universe and as an inner journey through the microcosm of the individual."--Jacket.

Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash Suhrawardī

Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers

A parallel Persian-English text edited and translated with an introduction by Wheeler M. Thackston Jr

Series: Bibliotheca Iranica. Intellectual traditions series ; no. 2

The treatise of the birds -- The sound of Gabriel's wing -- The red intellect -- A day with a group of Sufis -- On the state of childhood -- On the reality of love -- The language of the ants -- The Simurgh's shrill cry -- A tale of occidental exile (Arabic); A tale of occidental exile (Persian).

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