The Philosophy of Illumination

Foreword to the Series
Acknowledgements
Translators’ Introduction
Shahrazuri’s Introduction
Suhrawardi’s Introduction

Part One: The Rules of Thought, in Three Discourses
The First Discourse: Knowledge and definition [comprising seven rules]
The Second Discourse: On proofs and their principles, comprising [seven] rules
The Third Discourse: On sophistical refutations and some judgments between the Illuminationists and the Peripatetic doctrine in [several] sections
Part Two: On the Divine Lights, the Light of Lights, and the Bases and Order of Existence, in Five Discourses
The First Discourse: On light and its reality, the Light of Lights, and that which first was generated from It, in nine sections and rules
The Second Discourse: On the order of existence, in [fourteen] sections
The Third Discourse: Explaining the activity of the Light of Lights and the dominating lights and the rest of the discussion of the celestial movements, in four sections
The Fourth Discourse: On the classification of barriers, their states, their combinations, and some of their powers, in [eight] sections
The Fifth Discourse: On the resurrection, prophecy, and dreams, in [nine] sections

Notes to the English Text
Notes to the Arabic Text
Glossary
Bibliography
Index