In this video we examine the mature philosophy of Suhrawardī as expressed in his work, The Philosophy of Illumination, the Ḥikmat alIshrāq.

Part I: Introduction The Leaven of the Ancients 2:06
Part II: Metaphysics & Ontology The Hierarchy of Mystic Light 11:59
Part III: Epistemology Knowledge by Presence 46:55
Part IV: Psychology & Soteriology The World of Autonomous Images 1:07:57

Sources consulted for the video:

Amin Razavi (1997) Mehdi Amin Razavi. Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination, Curzon Press, 1997.
Benevich (2017) Fedor Benevich. "The EssenceExistence Distinction", in Oriens , 2017, Vol. 45, No. 3/4 (2017), pp. 203258.
Bashiri (2008) Iraj Bashiri. "The Ishraqi Philosophy of Jalal alDin Rumi", Dushanbe, Tajikistan 2008.
Corbin (1977) Henry Corbin. Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran. Translated by Nancy Pearson. Princeton University Press, 1977
Corbin (1994) Henry Corbin. The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism. Translated by Nancy Pearson. Omega Publications, 1994.
Corbin (2003) Henry Corbin. Inside Iranian Sufism, vol. 2 Translated by Hugo M. Van Woerkom (Version 1.0 LATEX2"), Copyright 2003.
Kaukua (2013) Jari Kaukua. "Suhrawardī’s Knowledge as Presence in Context" in Studia Orientalia 114 (2013), pp. 309–324.
Nasr (1976) Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Three Muslim Sages: Avicenna Suhrawardi Ibn 'Arabi, Caravan Books, 1976.
Nasr (2006) Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Islamic Philosophy From Its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy, State University of New York Press, 2006.
Piątak (2018) Łukasz Piątak. Between philosophy, mysticism and magic. A critical edition of occult writings of and attributed to Shihāb alDīn alSuhrawardī (11561191), Warsaw, 2018.
Rizvi (1998) Sajjad H. Rizvi. "An Islamic Subversion of the ExistenceEssence Distinction? Suhrawardī's Visionary Hierarchy of Lights", in Asian Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1999.
Shields (2022) Christopher Shields. "Aristotle", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Suhrawardī, Habash Yaḥyá ibn. The Philosophy of Illumination = Ḥikmat AlIshrāq: A New Critical Edition of the Text of Ḥikmat AlIshrāq. Edited by John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai, Brigham Young University Press, 1999.
Thackston (1999) Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi. The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical Treatises, Translated by Wheeler M. Thackston Jr. Mazda Publishers, 1999.
Walbridge (2011) John Walbridge. "The Devotional and Occult Works of Suhrawardī the Illuminationst" Ishraq, Islamic Philosophy Yearbook, No.2, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011.
Walbridge (2000) John Walbridge. The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardī and the Heritage of the Greeks, State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000
Yazdi (1992) Mehidi Ha'iri Yazdi. The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence, State University of New York Press, 1992.