John Walbridge is Associate Professor in the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Philosophy at Indiana University. He has published several books including The Science of Mystic Lights: Qutb al-Din Shirazi and the Illuminationist Tradition in Islamic Philosophy.

• Abbreviations Preface Note on Terminology References and Translations Acknowledgments Part 1 Suhrawardi as a Non-PeripateticChapter 1 The Problem of Suhrawardi and IlluminationismThe CommentatorsChapter 2 Suhrawardi's Life and WorksFrom Maragha to AleppoSuhrawardi's worksChapter 3 A Summary of the Illuminationist PhilosophyThe Style of Suhrawardi's PhilosophizingLogicFirst Philosophy: Beings of ReasonPhysics: The Constituents of BodyKnowledge by PresenceMetaphysics and Rational TheologyThe Mystical: Imaginal World, Afterlife, Cycles, ReincarnationChapter 4 Suhrawardi on the History of the Ancient PhilosophyThe "Ishraqi" SchoolThe Philosophical GenealogyThe Greek Line in Suhrawardi's Philosophical IsnadPart 2 The Divine PhilosophersChapter 5 Empedocles: The Philosopher as Mystic and MagusThe Empedocles of HistoryShahrazuri's Account of EmpedoclesThe Empedoclean Tradition in IslamEmpedocles in Suhrawardi's WorksLove and StrifeSuhrawardi as Mystic and MagusChapter 6 Pythagoras: The Brotherhood of the Lovers of wisdomThe Pythagoras of History and LegendThe Commentaries on the Golden Verses and the AkousmataOther Information on Pythagoreanism: Lore, Numbers, and SymbolsThe Pythagoreanizing Neoplatonists and the IlluminationistsWhat the Illuminationists Learned from PythagorasConclusionChapter 7 The Divine PlatoThe Biography of Plato in ArabicPlatonic Materials in ArabicDialogue, Myth, and AllegoryIslamic Writers on PlatonismWhy Did Suhrawardi Become a Platonist?Chapter 8 Aristotle and the PeripateticsThe Historical Aristotle in the Islamic TraditionThe Problem of Suhrawardi's "Old Aristotle"Suhrawardi's Critique of the PeripateticsChapter 9 Plato versus Aristotle (i): The Critique of Peripatetic LogicDivision and the Rejection of Essentialist DefinitionThe Simplification of the SyllogismPropositional LogicChapter 10 Plato versus Aristotle (ii): Platonic EpistemologyThe Problem of VisionAlexander of Aphrodisius on VisionKnowledge by PresenceEpistemology and the Seventh Epistle of PlatoIntuition as a Basis of PhilosophySuhrawardi's Platonism in ReviewChapter 11 The Stoics: The Heirs of Plato's Esoteric TeachingsThe Problem: Mulla Sadra's Identification of Suhrawardi as a StoicThe Transmission of Stoic IdeasIlluminationism as StoicismSuhrawardi's System and the History of Philosophy: RecapitulationPart 3 AftermathChapter 12 Politics, Plato's Seventh Epistle, and the Failure of Suhrawardi's Political AmbitionsChapter 13 The Philosophical Heritage of SuhrawardiThe Transmission of his Books and IdeasMaragha to the School of IsfahanMysticism and the Decline of Science in IslamThe Problem of Consciousness and the Recurrence of MetaphysicsAppendix I Henry Corbin and Suhrawardi StudiesAppendix II Suhrawardi's Dream of AristotleNotes Bibliography Index

"This is an original and provocative work in the area of Suhrawardian studies that challenges the existing interpretations of Suhrawardi's concept of the history of philosophy and offers an alternative perspective." — Mehdi Aminrazavi, author of Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination