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The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical
Treatises
Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi
A Parallel Persian-English Text
Edited and Translated with an Introduction by
Wheeler M. Thackston Jr. 
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.
Specifications:
1999: xxxiii+247pp., Glossary, Bibliography
ISBN:1-56859-091-1(paper): $24.95
[Bibliotheca Iranica: Intellectual Traditions Series, No. 2]
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Al-Tanqihat fi Sharh al-talwihat
The Ball and Polo Stick or The Book of Ecstacy
Book of Radiance
The Mirror of Meaning
Philosophical Allegories
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