A Study On The Suhrawardi’s Theory Of Knowledge

What Suhrawardi has been trying to argue for is that philosophy in general and knowledge mainly have to have an Ishraqi foundation. In Suhrawardi’s theory of knowledge, light becomes the substance of knowledge, thus we need to know the substance of light. The illuminationist knowledge crucial to the attainment of the particular mode of being which Suhrawardi refers to as presence is specifically self-knowledge. Knowledge of the self, as the divine substance bestowed upon us, is fundamentally knowledge of the Divine. Allah therefore becomes the focal point where the concepts of self, light, presence and knowledge come together into a unified whole. Suhrawardi offers his theory of knowledge both in its practical domain and its purely philosophical and intellectual intuitive, and the illuminationist knowledge of the self can be attained through the Sufi path. Therefore, Knowledge of the self and how it is that the self knows itself is the subject of Suhrawardi’s philosophical epistemology.As discussed in Suhrawardi’s opinion, knowledge is not a theoretical and practical cognition that is the product of intuitive and self-awareness. He believed that it is impossible to surmount to self-knowledge only through this procedure; actualizing internal transcendence and treasuries is the product of illuminated experience rather than sensory and intuitive knowledge. He considers the illuminated knowledge as the real one and believes that human will reach the state of true insight through direct experience, such an experience requires intuitive knowledge, connected with abstract conceptual knowledge.