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The Sought Jewel (Låh¥j¥), 55
soul, 134
Soul of the First Sphere, 141
Soviet Union: Marxism in, 16
space, 112
Spain: Islamic philosophy in, 114,
115, 152, 154, 156, 311n52
Spanish: “identity,” 15
speculum historiale, 220
spirituality: harmonization with
philosophy, 158
The Spiritual Physick (al-Råz¥), 23,
144
The Splendid Sermon (Ibn S¥nå), 171
Springs of Wisdom (Ibn S¥nå), 98
Stagirite, 64. See also Aristotle
Steengerghen, Fernand, 287n7
Steinschneider, Moritz, 15, 50
Stern, Samuel, 311n52
Stoddart, William, 284n9
The Story of the Occidental Exile
(Suhraward¥), 161
The Straight Path (M¥r Dåmåd), 214
The Straighting of Faith (M¥r
Dåmåd), 214
Struik, Dirk, 314n2
Suarez, Francisco, 86
The Substance of Unity (al-Båj¨r¥),
128
Subtleties of Philosophy (Urmaw¥), 189
The Sufficient in Philosophy (Ahar¥),
188
Sufi: ÷ukamå˘, 37; metaphysics, 46,
81, 82; poets, 39
ƒuf¥ ibn al-waqt, al-, 179
Sufism, 13, 14, 27, 34, 35, 116, 128,
131, 146, 147, 150, 155–157, 175,
179, 188, 192, 194, 204, 209, 210,
212, 224, 277, 295n15. See I∑fahån¥,
Mu±ammad ibn Då˘¨d al-;
Kåshån¥, Af∂al al-D¥n; ascetic
practices of, 36; combined with
philosophy, 155; criticism of, 40;
doctrinal, 23, 108, 136; effect of
Ibn ‘Arab¥ on, 87; identified with
Index 375
esoteric dimension of Islam, 100;
exeriential knowledge of, 74;
falsafah and, 45; on illumination,
76; Indian, 132; integration of
÷ikmah and kalåm and, 51;
meaning of divinity in, 74;
metaphysics and, 46; North
African, 132; Persian, 182;
philosophical dimensions of, 108;
prophets of, 37; Qådir¥, 76;
relation to ÷ikmah, 59; relation to
kalåm, 56, 57, 58; Shådhiliyyah
Order, 76; in Spain, 114, 115; on
structure of reality, 80; Turkish,
132
Suhraward¥, Shihåb al-D¥n, 4, 5, 23,
27, 29, 36, 38, 39, 45, 49, 64, 79,
140, 152, 153, 156, 157, 167, 179,
188, 189, 192, 194, 225, 228, 239,
241, 269, 284n12, 294n7, 298n24,
300n5, 303n13, 313n68, 321n21;
defense of correspondence of
måhiyyah to the reality of an
object, 79; essentialistic metaphysics
and, 79; execution of, 115;
founding of School of Illumination
by, 86; identified with school
of aƒålat al-måhiyyah , 80; ishråq¥
doctrines of, 52; school of
illumination and, 99, 115, 116,
158–160; school of principiality of
quiddity and, 176; study of angels
by, 229; study of in Turkey, 60;
traditional Islamic conception of
history of philosophy by, 107
Sulaymån Nadw¥, Sayyid. See
Nadw¥, Sayyid Sulaymån
The Sum of Two Wisdoms (Nå∑ir-i
Khusraw), 112, 146
sunnah: shortcomings of Ash‘arite
approach and, 52
Sunni: philosophical activity in
Syria, 45
Sunnism, 38, 44
Supreme Principle, 102, 131, 148