The theory of vision in the work of Šihāb al-Din al-Suhrawardī

Mateus Domingues da Silva PhD candidate, Brazil icon-calendar December 18, 2014 Šihāb al-Din al-Suhrawardī (d. 587/1191), philosopher and mystic, has developed a theory of knowledge by simple direct, visionary, and intuitive presence. This theory is rooted in a theory of the physical vision.

Mateus Domingues Da Silva

Send him an email: biblio@ideo-cairo.org Click here to see his authority record and list of publications on Diamond. Mateus Domingues da Silva is Brazilian and lives in Cairo. He is the Head Librarian of IDEO’s library since May 2021.  PhD in Arabic studies, Mateus works on the Islamic intellectual history, and, more precisely, on Metaphysics in […]