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Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī - Bibliography I

Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī  (549/ 587 AH = 1154-1191 CE),

Mausoleum of the Shaykh al-Ishrāq...

Suhrawardī = Shihāb al-Dīn `Abū al-Futūḥ Yaḥyā  ibn Ḥabash ibn Amīrak Suhrawardī (executed,  587/1191).

Stephen N. Lambden

2016-7 - In progress and under revision.

Now being corrected and updated from the 2009 versions :

Primary sources, Ishrāqī texts and Studies in Illmunationism.

Works of Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī  (d.587/1191).

Major 3 volume Compilations ed. Corbin and Nasr.

  • Opéra metaphysica et mystica Tome I, ed. H. Corbin, Istanbul, Ma`arif Matbaası, 1945.

  • Opéra metaphysica et mystica Tome I, ed. H. Corbin, Tehran: Academie Imperiale Iranienne de Philosophie, 1976.

  • Opéra Metaphysica et mystical 1.  Edited and Introduction by Henry Corbin. Tehran: Institut d'Etudes et des Recherches Culturelles, 1993.

  • Opéra metaphysica et mystica Tome 2, ed. H. Corbin, Tehran, Institut Franco-Iranien, 1952.

  • Opéra Metaphysica et Mystical 2. Edited and Introduction by Henry Corbin, Tehran: Institut d'Etudes et des Recherches Culturelles, 1993.

  • Oeuvres Philosophiques et Mystiques. Tome III  ed. S.H. Nasr / H. Corbin, Tehran, Institut Franco-Iranien, 1970.

  • Œuvres Philosophiques et Mystiques. ed. Nasr & Corbin . Tome III. Œuvres en Persan. Tehran & Paris, 1970.

  • ed. Nasr & Corbin.,  Tome III. Oeuvres en Persan. Tehran & Paris, 1970. 157+494pp.  *

  • Opéra Metaphysica et Mystical III. Edited and Introduction by Seyyed H. Naşr. Tehran: Institut d'Etudes et des Recherches Culturelles, 1993.

  • Majmū'a-yi Musannafāt-i Shaykh-i Ishraq: Œuvres philosophiques et mystiques. 3 vols. Edited by Henry Corbin. Bibliothäque Iranienne, n.s. Tehran: Academie Imperiale Iranienne de Philosophie, 1976-77. First published: vol. l : Istanbul: Ma`arif Matbaası,  1945; vols. 2-3: Tehran: Institut Franco-Iranien, 1954-70.

  • Oeuvres Philosophiques et Mystiques. ed. Nasr & Corbin.,  Nouvelle Series Tome III. Oeuvres en Persan [= Académie Impériel Iranienne de Philosophie Pulication No. 14]. Tehran & Paris, 1977. 157+494pp.  *

Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq  (Philosophy of Illumination).

  • Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq in Opera metaphysica et mystica Tome 2, ed. H. Corbin, Tehran, Institut Franco-Iranien, 1952 Reprint 1977, pp.1-260..

  • Hikmat al-Ishraq, in Majmū'a II :9-260; Suhrawardî, Philosophy and Suhrawardî, Sagesse...

  • Hikmat al-Ishrāq. Persian translation and commentary, Sayyid Ja`far Sajjadi (No. 1562). Tehran: Intisharat-i Daneshgah-i Tehran, 1361/1983. *

  • Le Livre de la Sagesse Orientale: Kitāb Hikmat al-Ishraq. trans. and Notes Henry Corbin + Introd. Christian Jambert, Paris: Verdier, 1986 (694 pp.).*

  • Hikmat al-Ishraq. Persian trans. Dr. Sayyid Ja`far Sajjadi Tehran:  Intisharat-i Daneshgah-i Tehran, 1361/1983. *

  • The Philosophy of Illumination. A New critical edition of the text of the Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq with English translation, Notes, Commentary and Introduction. John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1999.*

Commentaries on the Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (The Philosophy of Illumination")

  • Shihāboddīn Yahya Sohravardī: La Livre De La Sagesse Orientale (Kitab Hikmat al-Ishraq). Lagrasse: Veridier, 1986.  traduction et notes par Henry Corbin ; âetablies et introduites par Christian Jambet / Introduction by Christian Jambet, French trans.and notes by Henri Corbin,  includes data on the Commentaries on the Hikmat al-Ishraq of Qutb al-Din Shirazi and Mulla Sadra Shirazi.

  • Kalimat al-tasawwuf. In Si risalah äz shaykh-i ishrāq, edited by Najafqulĩ Habibï. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of philosophy, 1977.
  • Kitāb al-ljimahāt. In Si risalah az shaykh-i ishrari edited by Najaf quii Habibï. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1977.  Le Livre de la sagesse orientale. Translation and notes by H. Corbin. Paris: Verdier, 1986.

Shahrazūrī, Shams al‑Dīn Muhammad ibn Mahmud (d. after 688/1288),

  • Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (Commentary on the Philosophy of Illumination) Critical edition of the 13th century Arabic text , Introduction and Notes by Hossein Ziai, Tehran: Institute for Cultural Studies and Research, 1372/1993. *

Quṭb al-Din Shirazi , Maḥmūd Ibn Maṣūd 634-710 AH = 1236-1311 CE)

  • Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq. Lithograph Tehran, [564pp.] 1315/1896 [7].  includes glosses of Mulla Sadrā.
  • Sharḥ-i hikmat al-ishrāq. Tehran: Tehran UniversityI Press, 1951.

Harawī, Muhammad-Sharif Nizâm al-Dīn ( d. 11XX/16XX)

`Anwārîya ("Abodes of Light") written 1008/1600.

  • `Anwārîya: Tarjuma wa-Sharh-i Hikmat al-Ishraq-i Suhrawardî'. Ed. Hossein Ziai.Markaz-i Ïranï-yi Mutāla'a-yi Farhanghā, Majmũ'a-yi Mutāla'āt-i Islāmī 3. Tehran: Amīr Kabir, 1363 Sh. /1980+ 1363 Sh./1984. Persian Commentary on the Hikmat al-Ishraq (xxxix+261pp). *

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Further works of Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī  (d.587/1191).

Hayākil al-Nūr  ("Temples of Light").

  • Hayakil = Hayakil al-Nūr. [= al-Salalaat al-Ishrāqiyya no. 1] ed. Muhammad `Alī Abū Rayyān. Cairo:  Maktabat  al-Tujariyya al-Kubra = Grande Library Commerciale, 1377/1957  (125pp.).  *

  • The shape of light, Hayakal al-Nur interpreted by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti, Louisville, KY : Fons Vitae, c. 1998  *

  • Thalāth rasa'il : Tafsir surat al-Kafirun, Shawakil al-hur fi sharh Hayakil al-nur, Risalat Unmadhaj al-`ulum. wa-bi-dhaylihi Risalat Hayakil al-nur  min musannafat Jalal al-Din Muhammad ibn As`ad al-Dawwani; tahqiq Ahmad Taysirkani, Mashhad: Bunyād-i Pizhuhishha-yi Islami,  Risālah-'i Hayākil al-nūr: matn-i ‘Arabī, tarjumah-'i kuhan-i Fārs ī, sharḥ-i Fārsī az ‘ahd-i āl-i Muzaffar, Shahāb al-Dīn Yahyá Suhravardī ; bih tashīh va muqaddimah-'i Karīm ī Zanjānī  āsl  Tehrān : Nashr-i Nuqtah, 1379 /2000.  *

  • Hayakil al-Nūr. Ed. Muhammad Abu Rayyan. Cairo: al-Maktaba al-Tijarîya al-Kubrā, 1957.

  • Hayākil al-Nūr. Trans, in Ku^pinar, Ismā 'īl Anķaravī.
     

  • Dawwani, Muhammad ibn As`ad `Abd al-Haqq, Muhammad Kaukan, Muhammad Yusuf, Shawakil al-hur fi Sharh Hayakil al-nur : huwa sharh li-Hayakil al-nur li-Shihab al-Din Abu al-Futuh Yahya ibn Habash ibn Amirak al-Suhrawardi.  Madras:  Nazim al-Maktabah sic al-Makhtuat al-Sharqiyyah li-Hukumat Madras., 1953.

al-Alwāḥ al-'lmādiyya.

  • In Opera Metaphysica et Mystical Tome III. Edited and Introduction by Seyyed H. Naşr. Item 3 on pp.109-195.
  • In Suhrawardî. Three Treatises, pp. 1-78 = Three Trestises (al-Alwah al-`imadiyyah, Kalimat al-tasawwuf, al-Lamahat). ed.+ introd. Najaf Golī-Ḥabibī, English preface Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1397/1967
  • Alwāh-i 'lmādĩ. In Majmū'a, vol. 3, pp. 105-95.
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Kalimat al-Taşawwuf.

  • In Suhrawardî, Three Treatises = Three Trestises (al-Alwah al-`imadiyyah, Kalimat al-tasawwuf, al-Lamahat). ed.+ introd. Najaf Golī-Ḥabibī, English preface Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1397/1967
     

Kitāb al-Talwihāt al-Lawhiyya ("The Book of                ").

  • Ed. Corbin in  Opera metaphysica et mystica Tome I,  (Istanbul, Ma`arif Matbaası) 1945. , pp. 70-74.

  • Kitāb al-Talwihāt al-Lawhiya wa Ί- 'Arshĩya. In Majmū 'a 1:1-121.

Kitāb al-Masharia wa'l-Mutarihatāt,

  • Ed. Corbin in Istanbul 1945. ADD.

Ha'iri, Mehdi, Y.

  • (trans. + comm. )`Suhrawardi's An Episode and a Trance: A Philosophical Dialogue in Mystical State' in Morewedge, Parviz (.ed.) Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism. Delmar, New York: Caravan Books 1981[Rep. 1997] pp. 177-189.

Kitāb al-Lamahāt, (The Book of the").

  • Kitāb al-lamahāt, lil-Suhrawardī. Haqqaqahu wa-qaddama lahi Amīl al-Ma‘lūf (= Philosophical Texts and Studies III), Beirut, Dār al-Nahār lil-Nashr, 1969 .  *

  • Three Trestises (al-Alwah al-`imadiyyah, Kalimat al-tasawwuf, al-Lamahat). ed.+ introd. Najaf Golī-Ḥabibī, English preface Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Tehran:Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1397/1967

Mantiq al-Talwîhat.

  • Mantiq al-Talwîhat. ed. 'Alï-Akbar Fayyad. Intishārāt-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān 270. Tehran, 1334/1955.

PERSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL AND ALLEGORICAL WRITINGS

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Partaw nāmah ("The Book of Radiance")

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  • Partaw nāmah. English & Persian, The book of radiance = Partawnāmah : a parallel English-Persian text. Ed. trans. , with an introduction by Hossein Ziai     Costa Mesa, CA : Mazda Publishers, 1998

  • Partow Nameh, The Book of Radiance, ed. trans. Hossen Ziai. MazdaPublisher, 1998.

Risalah al-Tayr ("The Treatise of the Birds") - in Persian.

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  • Persian text ed. + Eng. trans.  1999 by W. M. Thackston Jr. in Suhrawardi, The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical  Treatises (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers), 1999), pp. 1-7.

Āvaz-i Par-i Jibra'il  ("The Sound of Gabriel's Wing") - in Persian.

  • 1st.ed. 1935 H. Corbin + Paul Kraus, "Traitée du bruissement de l'aile de Gabriel" in Journal Asiatique (July 1935): 1-82.

  • 2nd ed.  1945 [+ reprints] in Opéra Metaphysica et Mystica 1. Edited and Introduction by Henry Corbin. Istanbul., 1945 + ed. Corbin +Nasr, Tehran: Institut d'Etudes et des Recherches Culturelles, 1964+ 1993.

  • Trans. into Arabic by Paul Kraus partially printed in Khayali, Suhrawari, (1966), pp. 88-96

  • Corbin rev. French trans. 1976 in L'archange empourprâe : quinze traitâes et râecits mystiques (Henry Corbin,  Paris: Fayard, 1976) pp. 223-264.

  • Eng. trans.  1982 W. M. Thackston Jr. in The Mystical and Visionary Treatise of Suhrawardi (London: Octagon Press, 1982), pp.26-34.

  • Persian text + Eng. trans.  1999 W. M. Thackston Jr. in Suhrawardi, The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical  Treatises (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers), 1999), pp. 8-19.

Qāsemī.

  • "Sharh-i awāz-i par-ijibra'il." Maarit, no. 1 (March 1985): 77-99.

Tuft, Anthony.

  • Symbolism and Speculation in in Suhrawardi's, The Song of Gavriels's Wing' in Morewedge ed. = Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism. Delmar, New York: Caravan Books 1981[1997] pp. 207-221.

`Aql-i Surkh ("The Red [Purple] Intellect") - in Persian.

  • Persian text  ed. Nasr + French trans by Corbin (pp.in Œuvres Philosophiques et Mystiques. ed. Nasr & Corbin . Tome III. Œuvres en Persan. Tehran & Paris, 1970.

  • (Rev.) French trans.  Corbin in L'Archange Empourpre ( Paris: 1976), pp.  ADD-ADD. 

  • Eng. trans.  1982 W. M. Thackston Jr. in The Mystical and Visionary Treatise of Suhrawardi (London: Octagon Press, 1982), pp. 35-42.

  • Persian text + Eng. trans.  1999 by W. M. Thackston Jr. in Suhrawardi, The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical  Treatises (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers), 1999), pp. 20-32.

Rūzī bā jamā`at Ṣūfiyān  ("A Day with a Group of Sufist") - in Persian.

  • Persian text + Eng. trans.  1999 by W. M. Thackston Jr. in Suhrawardi, The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical  Treatises (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers), 1999), pp. 33-41.

Risālah fi Ḥālat al-Ṭufūliyya ("Treatise On the State of Childhood") - in Persian.

  • Persian text + Eng. trans.  1999 by W. M. Thackston Jr. in Suhrawardi, The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical  Treatises (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers), 1999), pp.43-56.

Fī ḥaqīqat al-`Ishq  ("On the Reality of Enraptured Love" or "Solace of the Lovers")

  • Fī ḥaqīqat al-`Ishq   (On the Reality of Love) text and tr. In Suhrawardi, 1999  (Treatise VI), 58-76.

  • 1999 The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical Treatises, (Persian+ English text) ed. & tr. W.M. Thackston. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Pub. 1999.

  • Persian text + Eng. trans.  1999 by W. M. Thackston Jr. in Suhrawardi, The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical  Treatises (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers), 1999), pp. 58-76

Risālah-yi Lughat-i Mūrān ("Treatise On the Language of the Ants") - in Persian.

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  • Persian text + Eng. trans.  1999 by W. M. Thackston Jr. in Suhrawardi, The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical  Treatises (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers), 1999), pp.77-90.

Risālah-yi Saghīr-i Sīmurgh ("Treatise On the Shrill Cry of the Simurgh") - in Persian.

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  • Persian text + Eng. trans.  1999 by W. M. Thackston Jr. in Suhrawardi, The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical  Treatises (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers), 1999), pp.91-105.

Qiṣṣah al-Ghurba al-Gharbiyya ("Treatise On the Shrill Cry of the Simurgh") Arabic + Persian trans. and Commentary..

  • Qişşat al-Ghurba al-Gharbĩya, in Majmū'a 2: 273-97.

  • French trans. Henri Corbin, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital 137-150.

  • Persian text + Eng. trans.  1999 by W. M. Thackston Jr. in Suhrawardi, The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical  Treatises (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers), 1999), pp.106-111 (Arabic text) + 112-124 (Persian trans. and Commentary).

COMPENDIA AND MISCELLANY

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  • كشف الفضائح اليونانية ورشف النصائح الايمانية = Kashf al-faḍāʼiḥ al-Yūnāniyya wa-rashf al-naṣāʼiḥ al-īmāniyya. ed. ʻĀʼishah Yūsuf al-Manāʻī. Cairo: Dār al-Salām, 1999.  256pp. 
  • رشف النصائح الايمانية و كشف الفضائح اليونانية  = Rashf al-naṣāʼiḥ al-īmānīyah va kashf al-fadāʼiḥ al-Yūnāniyya. Trans. Muʻīn al-Dīn Jamāl ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad, Muʻallim-i Yazdī + Najīb Māyil Hiravī.Tehran: Chāp va Nashr-i Bunyād, 1365/1986-7. 522 pp. Translation of: Rashf al-naṣāʼiḥ al-īmānīyah wa-kashf al-faḍāʼiḥ al-Yūnāniyya.
  • Rashf al-naṣāʼiḥ al-īmāniyya va kashf al-fadāʼiḥ al-Yūnāniyya. Persian trans and ed. Muʻīn al-Dīn Jamāl ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad, Muʻallim Yazdī + taṣḥīḥ va tawz̤īḥ Najīb Māyil Haravī. Tehran : Bunyād, 1365/1986.  522 pp.

  • Rashf al-Naṣā'iḥ al-Aymaniyya wa Kashf al-Naḍa'ih al-Yunaniyya.  ADD

  • 1999 The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical Treatises, (Persian+ English text) ed. & tr. W.M. Thackston. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Pub. 1999.

  • Mūnis al-‘ushshāq ta'līf-i Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Suhravardī ma‘rūf bih Shaykh Ishrāq ; nazm-i ‘Imād al-Dīn ‘Arabsh āh Yazd ī ; bih inzimām-i sharḥ-i Mūnis al-‘ushshāq bih tashīh va tawzīh-i Najīb Māyil Haravī . Tehrān : Intishārāt-i Mawlá, 1366 [1987 or 1988]

  • L'archange empourprâe : quinze traitâes et râecits mystiques. Henry Corbin,  Paris: Fayard, 1976.

  •  al-Mashāri' wa'l-Muţarahat, in Majmū'a 1:194-506.

  •  al-Muqawamat, in Majmū'a 1:123-92.

  • Three Treatises. Ed. Najaf-Gholī Habībī. Lahore: Iran Pakistan Institute of Persian Studies, 1977.

  • Three Trestises (al-Alwah al-`imadiyyah, Kalimat al-tasawwuf, al-Lamahat). ed.+ introd. Najaf Golī-Ḥabibī, English preface Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Tehran:Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1397/1967

W. M. Thackston, Jr. (ed. and trans.)

  • The mystical and visionary treatises of Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi  translated by W.M. Thackston, Jr Publish info London : Octagon, 1982  *

  • 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 . Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers, 1999.  *

  • The Mystical and Visionary Treatises of Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi. Translated by Wheeler M. Thackston Jr. London: Octagon Press, 1982. Review by Hermann Landolt. "Suhrawardfs 'Tales of Initiation'." Journal of the American Oriental Society 107.3 (1987): 475-86.

Diwan Shaykh al-Ishraq..

  • Diwan Shaykh al-Ishraq... ed. Ahmad Mustafa Husayn.  Paris: Dar Babilon, 200pp.

MAJOR ISHRAQI-ILLUMINATIONIST THINKERS AND COMMENTATORS

al-Shahrazũrĩ, Shams al-Dĩn Muhammad ibn Maḥmūd (d. c. 687/1288).

  • Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (Commentary on the Philosophy of Illumination) ed. Hossein Ziai, Tehran: Institute for Cultural Studies and Research, 1372/1993.

  • Nuzhat al-arwāḥ. Istanbul: Yeni Cami, 1908.

  • Nuzhat al-Arwah wa-Rawdat al-Afrāh fī Tārīkh al-Hukamā' wa'l-Falasifa. Ed. S. Khurshid Ahmed. 2 vols.; Haydarabad, 1976.

  •  Ed. Muhammad-'Alî Abu Rayyan. 1st éd. Alexandria: Dar al-Ma'rifa al-Jāmi'a, 1414/1993.

  • Sharḥ Hikmat al-Ishraq. Ed. Hossein Ziai. Tehran: Institute for Cultural Studies and Research, 1993.

Dawwānī, Jalāl al-Dīn (d. 907/1501).

  •  Shawākil al-ḥur fī sharḥ hayākil al-nūr.  Madras: The Nūrī Press, 1954

Harawī, Muhammad-Sharif Nizâm ai-Din (ADD/ADD)

  • `Anwārîya: Tarjuma wa-Sharh-i Hikmat al-Ishraq-i Suhrawardî'. (Persian trans. and commentary on the Hikmat al-Ishraq, written 1008/1600) Ed. Hossein Ziai.Markaz-i Ïranï-yi Mutāla'a-yi Farhanghā, Majmũ'a-yi Mutāla'āt-i Islāmī 3. Tehran: Amīr Kabir, 1358/1980. Persian Commentary on the Hikmat al-Ishraq. *

Ibn Kammūna, Sa`d ibn Manṣūr (d.638/1284). Jewish thinker of Baghdad

See Routledge HIP 1:484-496.

  • Sharh al-Talwīhāt al-lawhiyya  wa al-‘Arshiyya.  3 vols. ed. Dr. Najaf Qoli Habibi, Tehran: Miras-i Maktub, 2009.

  • "Ibn Kammūnah in his Sharh al-Talwīhāt, drawing upon the whole knowledge of his time and benefiting from other Suhrawardī's works, has admirably managed to explain complexities of the work. It is also an invaluable work in highlighting the views of Shaykh al-Ishrāq as well as clarifying Ibn Sīnā's positions in al-Shifā' and al-Ishārāt wa al-Tanbīhāt..." .  

  • al-Jadid fi al-Ḥikma ("The New Philosophy").
  • Sa’d b. Mansûr ibn Kammûna’s examination of the inquiries into the Three Faiths. A thirteenth-century essay in comparative religion (= University of California Publications, Near Eastern Studies, 6). Ed. Moshe Perlmann. Berkeley 1967 (xii, 119pp.)
  • al-Talwīḥāt (The Intimations).
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  • Al-Tanqīhāt fi Sharḥ al-Talwīhāt: Refinement and Commentary on Suhrawardi’s Intimations, A Thirteenth Century Text on Natural Philosophy and Psychology, Ibn Kammuna, critical edition, with introduction and analysis by Hossein Ziai and Ahmed Alwishah, Bibliotheca Iranica, Intellectual Traditions Series, No.9, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2003, ISBN 1-568-59106-3, ix + 48 + 490 pp.

"The present work is a critical edition of the section on physics of a large commentary on the Talwihat or Intimations, one of Suhrawardi’s so-called “Peripatetic” works written in the conventional style of Ibn Sina. Its metaphysical section was included in Corbin’s edition of Suhrawardi’s works, but, so far as I know, the physical portion has never been published. The present work is probably the most significant published text dealing with the physical doctrines of the early Illuminationist school; it is certainly the largest..." John Walbridge from the review in Iranian Studies 38/3 (Sept. 2005),  520-1.

Sharh al-Talwihat..  al-Tanqihat fi Sharh al-Talwihat, edited with Introduction and notes by H. Ziai and A. Alwishah. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2004.

Select Articles :

Schmidtke, Sabine 

  • "Studies on Sa'd b. Mansūr ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284): Beginnings, Achievements, Perspectives," Persica 19 (2003), pp. 107-123,

Tzvi Langermann, Y.

  • "Ibn Kammūna and the 'New Wisdom' of the Thirteenth Centūry," Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 15 (2005), 277-327.
  • `Ibn Kammūna at Aleppo' JRAS, Series 3, 17/1 (2007), 1-19. 

Quţb al-Dïn Mahmud ibn Diya' al-Din Mas`ud al-Shīrāzī (d.710/1131)

Shirāzī, Quṭb al-Dīn (d. 710/1311 or 716/1316)

  • Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (Commentary on the Philosophy of Illumination), Lithograph ed. Ibrāhīm  Ṭabāṭabā'ī. Tehran 1313/     

  • Durrat al-Tāj li-Ghurrat al-Dibāj ["The Pearly Crown for Dubāj's Brow"] (Persian)  . 8 vols. in 3. Vol. 1. Ed. Muhammad Mishkāt. Vol. 2. Ed. Hasan Mishkān Tabasī. Tehran: Majlis, 1939-46. [Vol. 3]: Bakhsh-i Hikmat-i 'Amali wa-Sayr wa-Sulũk. Ed. Māhdukht Humayl. 1st ed. Shirkat-i Intishārāt-i 'Ilmī wa ֊Farhangĩ 247. [Tehran]: Wizarat-i Farhangï wa-Āmũzish-i 'Ālī, 1990. *

  • Durrat al-Tāj li-Ghurrat al-Dibāj. Vol.1 containing contains parts 1-5 ), Tehran: Intisharat-i Hikmat  [1st ed. 1317 Sh./ 1938]  2nd printing [in  2vols. ] 1365Sh./1986. *

  • Sharh Hikmat al-lshrāq. Edited by Asad-Allah Harati. [Tehran]: 1895-97.

Dr. Muhammad Tāqī Mīr

  • Sharḥ-i ḥāl va āthār `Allamah Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd Ibn Maṣūd Shirazi. Dr. Muhammad Taqi Mīr [= No. 91]. Shiraz: Intisharat Danishgah Pahlavi. n.d. (vi+130pp. +130-159 index).*

John Walbridge,

  •  The Science of Mystic Lights, Qutb al-Din Shirazi and the Illumationist Tradition in Islamic Philosophy (= Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs XXVI) Cambridge Mass. Garvard Univ. Press, 1992 (296pp.)..*

SUHRAWARDI - BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS

Walbridge,  in his The Leaven of the Ancients (2000) has some excellent paragraphs about Suhrawardi biography. He writes, "I know of five major medieval biographies of Suhrawardi, all dating from the early and middle parts of the thirteenth century, written by authors who were one to three generations younger than Suhrawardi" :

  • Yāqūt al-Hamawī, Kitāb Irshād al-Arīb ila Ma'rifat al-Adīb al-Ma'ruf bi-Mu'jam al-Udabā' āw Ţabaqat al-Udahā՝ 1st ed.; Cairo: Maţba'a Hindĩya, 1925), 7:269-72.
  • Ibn Abī Uşaybi'a, 'Uyūn al-Anbā՝ fî Ṭabaqāt al-Atibbā', ed. A. Müller (Königsberg, 1884), 1:168-71; the edition by N. Rida (Beirut, 1968), 641-646 differs slightly from Müller's.
  • Ibn Fadl Allah al-'Umarī, Masālik al-AbsārfīMamālik al-Amsār, ed. Fuat Sezgin (Publications of the Institute for Arabic-Islamic Science, Ser. C, 46; Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, 1988), 9:86-93, which is based largely but not entirely on Ibn Abī Uşaybi'a.
  • Ibn Khallikān, Wafāyāt al-A'yān wa-Anbā՝ Abnā' al-Zamān, ēd. Iḥsān 'Abbās (Beirut: Dar al-Thaqafa, 1968), 6:268-74; trans. W. M. de Slane, Ibn Khallikan՝ s Biographical Dictionary (Oriental Translation Fund 59; Paris, 1843-71).
  • Shahrazūrī, Nuzhat al-Arwāḥ, ed. Ahmad, 2:119-43;

Shahrazūrī, Nuzhat al-Arwāḥ, ed. Abu Rayyān, 600-22.

Ahmed, Sh Nuzhat al-Arwāḥ; and Abu Rayyan, ed., Sh Nuzhat al-Arwāḥ, which appears to be superior to the Ahmed edition, of which Abu Rayyan was seemingly unaware. Toward the end of this project another edition came to my attention: ed. 'Abd al-Karîm Abu Shuwayrib (1st ed.; [Tripoli, Libya?]: Jam'Iyat al-Da'wa al-Islamlya al-'Alamlya, 1988). It was done on (lu-basis of two Islanbul MSS, but it is sharply criticized by Abu Rayyan, 44-50. The seventeenth-century Persian translation of Nuzhat al-Arwah by Maqsud-'Ali Tabriz! has recently been published by M. T. Danish-Pa/.huh and M. S. Mawla'i (Tehran, 1986) and differs (considerably at times) from the Arabic text. Part of tin-notice on Suhrawardi in this text has been translated in MVI. I 4. Thackslon's translation is based on the partial edition of S. H Nasr in .SMj 3:13-30. This edition includes the Arabic text as well as the Persian translation of Tabrizī. I have cited both the Ahmed and the Abu Rayyan editions and have preferred the readings of Abu Rayyan unless otherwise noted. I have not used the Tabrizī Persian translation. The Nuzhat is based on earlier works, al-Mubashshir b. Fātik's Mukhtār al-Hikam (Los bocados de oro, ed. 'Abd al-Rahmān. Badawĩ [Madrid, 1377/1958]) being the most important but not the only source." (Walbridge, 2000:232-3).
"A slightly later account, significant for its sympathy to Suhrawardi, is al-Dhahabî, al-'lbar fī Khabar Man Ghabar, ed. Salāh al-Dîn al-Munajjid (al-Turāth al-'Arabî 10; Kuwait: Wizarat al-Irshād wa'l-Anba', 1963), 4:263-64. It is based on Ibn Khallikān.
A source for several of the accounts is Ibn Shaddād, the biographer of Saladin and advisor to al-Malik al-Zāhir, who was actually involved in Suhrawardl's condemnation; see Bahā al-Dīn Ibn Shaddād, Sirat Salāh al-Dîn: al-Sīrat al-Yūsufìya, ed. Jamāl ai-Din al-Shayyal (1st ed.; Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1962), 10; trans. The Life of Salah ud Din Ayyubi (reprint Rawalpindi: Army Book Club, 1983), 10-11.
        A later account, citing skeptical Sufis, is 'Abd al-Rahmān Jāmī, Nafahāt al-Uns, ed. M. 'Abuli (Tehran: lllilā'āt, 1375/1996), 584-86.

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