Roxanne Marcotte wrote this Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Suhrawardi, first published in 2007 and last substantially revised in 2025, part of the Metaphysics Research Lab's peer reviewed and continually maintained reference. Its strength is that Stanford Encyclopedia entries are written by specialists and kept current through formal revision, and this one records the live scholarly split over whether Suhrawardi's Illuminationism is a distinct philosophical school or a critique developed within Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy, carrying that unresolved split forward rather than resolving it artificially. Its limit is that an encyclopedia entry, however rigorous, is a synthesis rather than original research, so a claim needing the primary scholarly argument behind either position needs the specialist studies the entry itself cites.
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Written by Roxanne Marcotte for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a signed, peer reviewed and continually revised specialist reference maintained by the Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University; a synthesizing survey entry rather than a full monograph, hence the middle tier. NotesStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. First published December 26, 2007; last modified March 6, 2025 (Spring 2025 edition), author confirmed via the entry's own archinfo citation page. Records the live scholarly split over whether Illuminationism is a distinct school or a critique within Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy; that split is carried into this atlas's scholarly-standing fact rather than resolved. Consulted directly and current as checked.
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AuthorRoxanne Marcotte
PublisherMetaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University
Publication Year2007
URLhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/suhrawardi/
Source Typereference
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- Philosophical Schools, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
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