Artistic creativity in the illuminationism philosophy of Suhrawardi

Nowadays dealing with theorization is the most necessary aspect of art discussions, something that doesn't have a long history in our culture. Our art has declined since late Safavid, and the causes have several inner and outer relations to art. Lack of creativity is the most important inner cause. This is why theorizing about creativity is necessary. This essay is based on the mythology of Gilbert Durand. Mythanalyse is chosen as method and works of Sohrevardi as case study. The results shows that the source of creativity is truth; the artist surges strongly in perceptual levels that he reaches to rational perception and understanding the truth, so with the help of this he is capable of creativity. Beauty is the glory of truth, as according to Sohrevardi beauty and perfection are the same and creativity, the result of perfection, if get in to action properly the result will be beauty.