%0 Journal Article %T A Study of the Illuminationist Elements of Ibn Sīnā’s Works in the Realms of Method, Content, and Language %J History of Philasophy %I Iranian Society of History of Philosophy %Z 2008-9589 %A Saeed Rahimian %D 1400 %\ 1400/07/28 %V 1 %N 12 %P 59-74 %! A Study of the Illuminationist Elements of Ibn Sīnā’s Works in the Realms of Method, Content, and Language %K Ibn Sīnā %K Suhrawardī %K Oriental wisdom %K Illuminationist philosophy %K gnosis %X Although Ibn Sīnā was the master of Peripatetic philosophers, he also provided the bases for the development of Illuminationist philosophy. In terms of methodology and epistemology, through introducing Oriental wisdom, which, irrespective of the Greeks’ views, is his own specific school of philosophy, and also through employing certain terminology, principles, and arguments which are associated with Illuminationism, he prepared the context for the revival and growth of Illuminationist philosophy by Suhrawardī. Ibn Sīnā’s critical mind and spiritual worthiness during his short life efficiently paved the way for the surge of Islamic philosophy and wisdom towards Illuminationist philosophy and then the Transcendent Philosophy in terms of methodology, content, and language. Suhrawardī mainly emphasizes the differences between his school of philosophy and that of Ibn Sīnā and his Peripatetic followers and introduces the beginning of his philosophy as the end of Peripatetic philosophy. However, we can confidently claim that his philosophy is to such a large extent influenced by Ibn Sīnā’s that one can consider Suhrawardī’s school to have been the outcome of the natural growth of Sinan philosophy in the course of time. Through highlighting gnostic and intellectually intuitive (or what was later called Illuminationist) elements in Ibn Sīnā’s available works, the present paper aims to demonstrate that Suhrawardī’s debt to Ibn Sīnā in all the three fields of methodology, content, and language is much greater than what is commonly assumed. %U http://rimag.ir/fa/Article/27313