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Ismai'l Ankaravi on the Illuminative Philosophy. His Izahu'l-Hikem: Its Edition and Analysis in Comparison with Dawwani's Shawakil al-Hur, together with the translation of Suhrawardi's Hayakil al-Nur - Softcover
Bilal Kuspinar (Author)
ISBN: 983-9379-00-3
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)
Year: 1996
Pages: 468 pages
Weight: 738g
This work originally the author’s doctoral dissertation completed at McGill University, brings to light an important Ottoman Turkish work of theosophy entitled Izahu’l Hikem (Elucidation of Wisdom). It was written by a prominent thinker of the seventeenth century Ottoman State, Isma’il Ankaravi (d. 1631). Ankaravi’s work was written as a commentary on the treatise Hayakil al-Nur (The Temples Of Light) by Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi (d. 1191), the chief champion of Illuminative philosophy.
This work is important because it may be the first work in English presenting a comprehensive outline of Suhawardi’s philosophy of Illumination from an unconventional approach of an Ottoman thinker, Isma’il Ankaravi, the renowned commentator of Rumi’s Mathnawi. Apart from its intrinsic value for students and theachers of Islamic philosophy and mysticism, this book makes two major contribution to the field of history and philosophy: firstly, the work by its very title already proves the actual existence of philosophical activities in the territory of the Ottomans, especially in the seventeenth century, and hence invites scholars to further explore the subject. Secondly, it throws considerable light on the degree of influence of Suhrawardi’s Ishraqi wisdom on certain Ottoman intellectuals of the time in general and on the Mevlevi mystic Ankaravi in particular.