The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks by John Walbridge

The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks

SUNY Series in Islam

John Walbridge

324 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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This book traces the intellectual background of Suhrawardi's thought and of the Greek roots of non-Aristotelian philosophy in the Islamic world. Suhrawardi placed himself in an intellectual tradition that sprang from the "Ancients," the philosophi...

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