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2:366–68; Cruz Hernández, Historia, 2:249–57; and Taftåzån¥ and Leaman, “Ibn
Sab‘¥n,” in Nasr and Leaman, History, pp. 346–49.
62. See “The Hidden Sciences in Islam,” by Jean Canteins in Islamic
Spirituality, S. H. Nasr (ed.), chapter 23, pp. 447–68.
63. This is one of the few works of Ibn Sab‘¥n to have been studied and
translated into a Western language. See E. Lator, “Ibn Sab‘¥n de Murcia y su
‘Budd al-‘≈rif’,” Revista al-Andalus 9/2 (1944) pp. 371–417.
64. Cruz Hernández refers to the school represented by Ibn Sab‘¥n as
“gnosofia” (Historia, 2:249). This school, sometimes referred to as the Sab‘iyyah,
was represented after Ibn Sab‘¥n by the great Sufi poet al-Shustar¥, who was
one of his students.
65. On Ibn Khald¨n’s philosophy of history see Muhsin Mahdi, Ibn
Khald¶n’s Philosophy of History (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1974).
66. See Abderramane Lakhsassi, “Ibn Khald¨n,” in Nasr and Leaman,
History, pp. 356–61.
67. See S. H. Nasr, Science and Civilization in Islam, pp. 62–64; S. Johnson,
“The ‘Umranic Nature of Ibn Khald¨n’s Classification of the Sciences,” Muslim
World, vol. 81, 1991, pp. 254-61.
68. This village in the Zagros Mountains south of Zanjan is also the
original home of the Suhraward¥ family of Sufis, to whom Shaykh al-ishråq
was not, however, related. On Suhraward¥, his life, and works, see Corbin, En
Islam iranien, vol. 2; Nasr, Three Muslim Sages, chapter 2; idem, “Suhraward¥,”
in The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia, pp. 125–83; Corbin et al., History
of Islamic Philosophy, pp. 205–20; Mehdi Aminrazavi, Suhraward¥ and the School
of Illumination (London: Curzon, 1997); Hossein Ziai, “Shihåb al-D¥n Suhraward¥:
Founder of the Illuminationist School,” in Nasr and Leaman, History . . .,
pp. 434-64; and Ibråh¥m D¥nån¥, Shu‘å˘-i and¥shah wa shuh¶d-i falsafa-yi
Suhraward¥.
69. See the translations of this major opus as Le Livre de la sagesse orientale,
trans. H. Corbin; C. Jambet (ed.); and The Philosophy of Illumination, trans.
J. Walbridge and H. Ziai.
70. The recitals of Suhraward¥ have been translated into elegant French
by H. Corbin as L’Archange empourprée (Paris: Fayard, 1976); they have also
been translated but less successfully into English by W. Thackston as The
Mystical and Visionary Treatises of Suhraward¥ (London: Octagon Press, 1982).
71. See Suhraward¥, Opera Metaphysica et Mystica, vol. 1, ed. H. Corbin
(Tehran and Paris: A. Maisonneuve, 1976) p. 503; see also John Walbridge, The
Leaven of the Ancients (Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press,
2000) whose understanding of this subject is quite different from ours.