The philosophy of illumination, ḥikmat al-ishrāq, was founded by Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī, executed in Aleppo in 1191. It holds that all beings are degrees of light emanating from the Light of Lights, and that true knowledge is knowledge by presence, the self-awareness of light. It drew on Persian and Platonic sources.
Ishrāq
Illumination: Suhrawardī’s philosophy, in which reality is a hierarchy of lights known by direct presence.
Also: Ishraq, Illuminationism