The Place of the Peripatetic Tradition in Qutb al-Din Shîrâzî’s Illuminist Philosophy

The aim of this study is to determine the place of the Peripatetic tradition in the Illuminist philosophy of Qutb al-Dîn al-Shîrâzî (d. 710/1311), an important scholar and philosopher of the 13th century known for his expertise in many fields. Shîrâzî wrote remarkable works on most of the sciences h...

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Main Author: Gülizar Ekinci
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Published: Istanbul University Press 2022-09-01
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description The aim of this study is to determine the place of the Peripatetic tradition in the Illuminist philosophy of Qutb al-Dîn al-Shîrâzî (d. 710/1311), an important scholar and philosopher of the 13th century known for his expertise in many fields. Shîrâzî wrote remarkable works on most of the sciences he learned and owes his real fame as a philosopher to the commentary titled Sharh Hikmat al-ishrâq, written on Suhrawardî’s (d. 587/1191) Hikmat al-ishrâq. Due to this work he’d written and the light-based emanation cosmology he adopted in it, Shîrâzî’s philosophy was generally identified with the Ishraqi/Illuminist school in the tradition of Islamic philosophy. However, Shîrâzî’s philosophy was versatile and unique with its different views. The Peripatetic school was another school that found a place both in the education and views of Shîrâzî, who succeeded at being the second mostreferenced source after Suhrawardî. Shîrâzî criticized Aristotle (384-322 BC) and his followers, who were known as Peripatetics, because of their methods and the deficiencies he saw regarding some points. According to Shîrâzî, the Peripatetics were deprived of the argument of Illuminism by rejecting zevk [pleasure] and keshf [discovery] and relying entirely on demonstration and bahs [research]. Although Shîrâzî criticized the Peripatetics, he both benefited from them and used peripatetic terminology when necessary. Among the Peripatetics, Avicenna (d. 428/1037) was the philosopher Shîrâzî bestbenefited upon. This study reveals what share the Peripatetic philosophy had Shîrâzî’s Illuminist philosophy.
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spelling doaj-art-f8ffe34c4ef142dfb51042d8d42aa02f2025-08-20T02:15:19ZaraIstanbul University Pressİslam Tetkikleri Dergisi2717-69672022-09-0112275577710.26650/iuitd.2022.1116766123456The Place of the Peripatetic Tradition in Qutb al-Din Shîrâzî’s Illuminist PhilosophyGülizar Ekinci0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7928-9622İnönü Üniversitesi, Malatya, TurkiyeThe aim of this study is to determine the place of the Peripatetic tradition in the Illuminist philosophy of Qutb al-Dîn al-Shîrâzî (d. 710/1311), an important scholar and philosopher of the 13th century known for his expertise in many fields. Shîrâzî wrote remarkable works on most of the sciences he learned and owes his real fame as a philosopher to the commentary titled Sharh Hikmat al-ishrâq, written on Suhrawardî’s (d. 587/1191) Hikmat al-ishrâq. Due to this work he’d written and the light-based emanation cosmology he adopted in it, Shîrâzî’s philosophy was generally identified with the Ishraqi/Illuminist school in the tradition of Islamic philosophy. However, Shîrâzî’s philosophy was versatile and unique with its different views. The Peripatetic school was another school that found a place both in the education and views of Shîrâzî, who succeeded at being the second mostreferenced source after Suhrawardî. Shîrâzî criticized Aristotle (384-322 BC) and his followers, who were known as Peripatetics, because of their methods and the deficiencies he saw regarding some points. According to Shîrâzî, the Peripatetics were deprived of the argument of Illuminism by rejecting zevk [pleasure] and keshf [discovery] and relying entirely on demonstration and bahs [research]. Although Shîrâzî criticized the Peripatetics, he both benefited from them and used peripatetic terminology when necessary. Among the Peripatetics, Avicenna (d. 428/1037) was the philosopher Shîrâzî bestbenefited upon. This study reveals what share the Peripatetic philosophy had Shîrâzî’s Illuminist philosophy.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/1BBFCA4F88324CAD9336561995EFE33Cqutb al-dîn al-shîrâzîilluminismperipateticsuhrawardîavicenna
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The Place of the Peripatetic Tradition in Qutb al-Din Shîrâzî’s Illuminist Philosophy
İslam Tetkikleri Dergisi
qutb al-dîn al-shîrâzî
illuminism
peripatetic
suhrawardî
avicenna
title The Place of the Peripatetic Tradition in Qutb al-Din Shîrâzî’s Illuminist Philosophy
title_full The Place of the Peripatetic Tradition in Qutb al-Din Shîrâzî’s Illuminist Philosophy
title_fullStr The Place of the Peripatetic Tradition in Qutb al-Din Shîrâzî’s Illuminist Philosophy
title_full_unstemmed The Place of the Peripatetic Tradition in Qutb al-Din Shîrâzî’s Illuminist Philosophy
title_short The Place of the Peripatetic Tradition in Qutb al-Din Shîrâzî’s Illuminist Philosophy
title_sort place of the peripatetic tradition in qutb al din shirazi s illuminist philosophy
topic qutb al-dîn al-shîrâzî
illuminism
peripatetic
suhrawardî
avicenna
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