Knowledge and its Types in Suhrawardi's View

Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi is an Islamic philosopher with an Illuminaonist (ʾishraqi) style. He is concerned with the knowledge of the soul and its knowledge, paying aenon to its refinement and training. He gives more aenon to knowledge by presence (al-ʾilm al-ḥużūrī) than philosophers before him. He broadens the scope of knowledge by presence. He makes it explicit that our visual knowledge, God's knowledge of his creatures and many other things are examples of such knowledge. On the other hand, he advises seekers of knowledge to master reasoning and argumentaon in order to be complete Illuminaonist philosophers. Therefore, the issues of knowledge by acquision (al-ʾilm al-ḥuṣūlī), i.e. concepon and judgment, are very much like issues in the Peripatec philosophy, except for some criques and comments that Suhrawardi has presented under Illuminaonist Rules.