suhrawardi: avicennian sciartist

Fleshing philosophical issues out by allegory, suhrawardi constitutes the founder of the illumination school. and his allegorical issues are deemed avicennian all the way down the line, requiring us to point his other face out: avicennian suhrawardi. i set forth three issues of sense perception, emanation, and cosmology which ever since aristotle’s age has captured the attention of philosophers. in suhrawardi’s treatises, there are allegories as diverse as ten towers,ten graves, ten flyers, ten straps, ten wardens, five chambers versus five gates, ten old men, nine shells, eleven layers, eleven mountains, and so forth. all of these allegories allude to avicenna’s views. that being the case, suhrawardi is reckoned as an avicennian sciartist and philartist writ large, due to encrypt avicenna’s stance by allegory, in lieu of his own illumationist views.