Medieval · 1154–1191
Who influenced Suhrawardi?
Influences and legacy
Founder of illuminationist philosophy: being is light, and knowledge is presence.
Suhrawardi was influenced by Avicenna, and went on to influence Ibn Arabi. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Suhrawardi?
Suhrawardi was a Persian philosopher who founded the Illuminationist school, known as the "Master of Illumination" and also as the "Murdered Master" after his execution for heresy.
In The Philosophy of Illumination he saw himself as reviving the ancient wisdom of Persia, and he offered a Platonist critique of Avicenna's Peripatetic philosophy, which dominated his day.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Suhrawardi?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Avicenna 980–1037
Who did Suhrawardi influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Suhrawardi.
- Ibn Arabi 1165–1240
The line of teachers behind Suhrawardi
The longest documented line of influence ending at Suhrawardi runs 9 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Suhrawardi
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Suhrawardi
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Suhrawardi, with no direct line between them.
- Maimonides 1138–1204
- Robert Grosseteste c. 1175–1253
Suhrawardi by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 18
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 8 — #58 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Common
Questions about Suhrawardi
- Who influenced Suhrawardi?
- Avicenna.
- Who did Suhrawardi influence?
- Ibn Arabi.
- When did Suhrawardi live?
- 1154–1191. The map files Suhrawardi under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Suhrawardi card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Suhrawardi in 8 languages, which makes it a Common card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Averroes 1126–1198
- Erasmus 1466–1536
- Hypatia c. 355–415