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The Philosophy of Illumination

by Suhrawardī

Suhrawardi’s Hikmat al-Ishraq, the founding text of the Illuminationist school, which argues that reality is graded light and that knowing is presence rather than definition — written against the Peripatetic logic of Avicenna, and the reason its author was executed at Aleppo in 1191. The twelfth-century work is out of copyright everywhere. WHAT IS HELD HERE IS NOT THE TWELFTH-CENTURY WORK: it is a 214-page scan of a modern printed English translation, identified from its own pages as Suhrawardi, The Philosophy of Illumination, translated by John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai, Islamic Translation Series, Brigham Young University Press, 1999 (ISBN 978-0-8425-2457-5). That translation is a separate copyrighted work and is still sold by the press.

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In copyright, and identified. The file held here is a complete scan of Suhrawardi, The Philosophy of Illumination, translated by John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai, Islamic Translation Series, Brigham Young University Press, 1999 (ISBN 978-0-8425-2457-5). The edition was established on 2026-09-14 by decoding the page images — the scan carries no text layer — and reading the series foreword signed by Parviz Morewedge, the acknowledgement to Brigham Young University’s Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts, and a contents page listing the translators’ introduction. NO PUBLIC-DOMAIN CLAIM IS MADE. This is not the Ron Paul case: that material had left the web, and this is in print with an ISBN, so the archive is not preserving anything that is at risk. It is held pending a request, and a request will be honoured immediately — write to freeknowledgelibrary@proton.me. The Arabic original is public domain and a replacement edition is prepared: tools/suhrawardi-edition.mjs --swap.

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