Sohrevardi - Great Iranian theosophist of esoteric teachings

[Dover]

Sohrevardi was the teacher of philosophy and mysticism, proponent of the culture of patience, bravery and resistance as well as an advocate of friendship and dialogue. He was one of the greatest philosophers of Islam and Iran in 6 century.

He was unique in his deep insight into the origins of Iranian and Greek philosophy as well as Islamic teachings. He renewed Eshraq philosophy which had an ancient root. Shihabuddin Yahya Sohravardi has been called "The Master of Oriental Theosophy”. In his writings, Sohravardi attempted a synthesis of Zoroastrian, Platonic, and Islamic ideas. The "Orient" of his "Oriental Theosophy" is the symbolic Orient, the East and the dawn as the symbol of Spiritual Light and Knowledge.

Sohravardi taught a complex and profound emanationist cosmology, according to which all creation is a successive outflow from the original supreme Light of Lights (Nur al-Anvar).

His teachings had a strong influence on subsequent esoteric Iranian thought, and there is a saying that this Oriental Theosophy is to philosophy what Sufism is to scholastic and legalistic theology....cont'd

http://www.irib.ir/Occasions/sohrevardi/SohrevardiEN.HTM

[mzteris]

1. “Decisive Necessity”

EVERY ARTICLE has this: "We can say that the idea of “Decisive Necessity” is believed to be one of the most important innovations of Sheikh Shahab-a-Din Sohrevardi in the history of logical philosophical speculation, which has been stressed by the majority of Moslem logician and philosophers. "

NOT one damn article goes on to explain this "most important innovations!"

I finally found this "one" thing on another page altogether - but that was it.


“Decisive Necessity” refers to the reduction of all modalities, i.e. necessity –possibility / contingency and impossibility, to the single mode of necessity.

[bloom]

3. "necessity"

as opposed to "proportionality" is the argument used by Amichai Magen (consulted for Israel - on legalities) http://www.archive.org/details/mosaicspecial120060726

to justify what Israel is doing.


That's probably not what Sohrevardi had in mind.

[mzteris]

4. "proportionality"

I haven't time to do the whole link thing (I'm moving in two days!! YIKES!) - but if you mean what I think you mean - or rather "Magen" means -

:WTF:

Is there ANY degree of "proportionality" as to I's response at this point in time? I don't think so. (At least what I know from what I read - which - as we all know - may or may not be completely accurate these days. :sigh:)

[Ghost Dog]

2. cf. Hesse's "Journey To The East"? n/t