The Relationship between Epistemology and the Political Thought of Master of Illumination

Shahab al-Din Sohravardi was one of the great philosophers of the world of Islam living in the sixth century after hijrah. As a creative thinker, he could develop a new plan on the basis of this very creativity and thought. He inferentially stated philosophy and knowledge in his illuminationist wisdom and consequently it was founded a new model of thought in philosophy. The statement of a sort of knowledge being considered as “intuitive knowledge” was the outcome of his trials in field of philosophy.In this article, it has been noted to the three issues of the kinds of insight, the means of insight, and the significance of insight in his view along with the presentation of a brief analysis of his political thought. It has been concluded that there exists a fundamental relationship between the two stated categories in the thought of master of illumination; it means that his political thought would be of epistemology foundation.