Philosophical and allegorical stories
kurdish Philosopher Suhrawardi
-Awaz-i Par-i Jebrail ("The Chant of Gabriel's Wing")
-Aql-i Surkh ("The Red Intellect")
-Fi Haqiqat al-'Ishaq ("On the Reality of Love")
-Lughat-i Muran ("The language of Termites")
-Safir-i Simurgh ("The Calling of the Simurgh")
-Ruzi ba Jama'at Sufiyaan ("A Day with the Community of Sufis")
-Fi Halat al-Tufulliyah ("On the State of Childhood")
-Aql-i Surkh ("The Red Intellect")
-Fi Haqiqat al-'Ishaq ("On the Reality of Love")
-Lughat-i Muran ("The language of Termites")
-Safir-i Simurgh ("The Calling of the Simurgh")
-Ruzi ba Jama'at Sufiyaan ("A Day with the Community of Sufis")
-Fi Halat al-Tufulliyah ("On the State of Childhood")
Suhrawardi Shafi'i (Sunni religion).According to Ibn Hawqal,the kurdish geographer of the fourth century AH, the people of Suhraward, spoke Kurdish and Kurdish were descendants.(Which concerned historical immigration and cultural and political events).also Sohrevard or Sohrabard was a Kurdish village located between the present-day towns of Zanjan and Bijar where he was born in 1155.Two other famous celebrities were Sohrevard Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi and Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi.Sufism and mysticism have a long history among the Kurds, and Suhrawardi, like other Kurdish scholars, followed the same path and created the school (Illuminationist or ishraqi philosophy).Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud Shahrazuri was also his famous disciple and follower.
Suhrawardi, in his magnum opus entitled Oriental Theosophy thought of himself as a reviver or resuscitator of the ancient tradition of Persian wisdom.[10] He states in Hikmat al-'Ishraq that:
| “ | There was among the ancient Persians a community of people guided by God who thus walked the true way, worthy Sage-Philosophers, with no resembelence to the Magi (Dualists). It is their precious philosophy of Light, the same as that to which the mystical experience of Plato and his predecessors bear witness, that we have revived in our book called Oriental Theosophy (Hikmat al-'Ishraq), and I have had no precursor in the way of such project. | ” |
Suhrawardi uses pre-Islamic Iranian gnosis, synthesising it with Greek and Islamic wisdom. The main influence from pre-Islamic Iranian thought on Suhrawardi is in the realm of angelology and cosmology. He believed that the ancient Persians' wisdom was shared by Greek philosophers such as Plato as well as by the Egyptian Hermes and considered his philosophy of illumination a rediscovery of this ancient wisdom. According to Nasr, Suhrawardi provides an important link between the thought of pre-Islamic and post-Islamic Iran and a harmonious synthesis between the two. And henry corbin states: "In northwestern Iran, Sohravardi (d. 1191) carried out the great project of reviving the wisdom or theosophy of ancient pre-Islamic Zoroastrian Iran."[14]
In his work Alwah Imadi, Suhrawardi offers an esoteric intrepretation of ferdowsi's Epic of Kings(Shah Nama)[15] in which figures such as fereydun, Zahak, Kay Khusraw[15] and Jamshid are seen as manifestations of the divine light. seyed hoseyne nasr states: "Alwah 'Imadi is one of the most brilliant works of Suhrawardi in which the tales of ancient Persia and the wisdom of gnosis of antiquity in the context of the esoteric meaning of the
Quran have been synthesized".[15]
In this Persian work Partwa Nama and his main Arabic work Hikmat al-Ishraq, Suhrawardi makes extensive use of Zoroastrian symbolism[15] and his elaborate angelology is also based on Zoroastrian models.[15] The supreme light he calls both by its Quranic and Mazdean names, al-nur al-a'zam (the Supreme Light) and Vohuman (Bahman). Suhrawardi refers to the hukamayya-fars (Persian philosophers) as major practitioners of his Ishraqi wisdom and considers zoroaster,jamasp Goshtasp,, kay khusraw Frashostar and bozorgmehr as possessors of this ancient wisdom.
Among pre-Islamic Iranian symbols and concepts used by Suhrawardi are: minu(incorporeal world), giti (corporeal world), Surush (messenger, Gabriel), farvardin(the lower world), gawhar (pure essence), Bahram, Hurakhsh (the Sun), shahriyar(archetype of species), isfahbad (light in the body), Amordad (Zoroastrian Angel), Shahrivar (Zoroastrian Angel), and the Kiyyani khvarenah .
With regards to the pre-Islamic Iranian concept of ,kavarenah Suhrawardi mentions:[16]
"Whoever knows Hikmat (Wisdom), and perserves in thanking and sanctifying the Light of the Lights, will be estowed with royal Kharreh and with luminous Farreh, and—as we have said elsewhere—divine light will further bestow upon him the cloak of royal power and value. Such a person shall then became the natural Ruler of the Universe. He shall be given aid from the High Heavens, and whatever he commands shall be obeyed; and his dreams and inspirations will reach their uppermost, perfect pinnacle."wikipedia.