Suhrawardi's epistemological critiques of Ibn Sina In the matter of Absar

The theory of Absar is one of the important epistemological issues in which Plato and Aristotle have presented a special view that is the basis of the theories of later Islamic philosophers on this issue. On the other hand, Ibn Sina, following Aristotle, has explained the truth of Absar based on the theory of "printing of images", according to which they define sensory perception as the passivity of the sensory penis from the sensible. On the other hand, Sheikh Ishraq, by rejecting the two theories of radius departure and impression, tries to express a new point of view. That is, it is not possible to provide an accurate analysis of the absars based on the "radius exit" and "image printing"; In fact, nothing comes out of the eye and nothing enters it, but it is by enlightening the soul over what is observed (provided, of course, that it is opposed) that obsession is realized. It seems that the intellectual background of Sheikh Ishraq in explaining the theory of Absar can be evaluated as such that "Ishraq" in Suhrawardi's intellectual system can be proposed in proportion to "Attention" in Ibn Sina's intellectual space and its alternative; Because the approach of the Peripatetic philosopher has been in the context of acquired science, the wisdom of illumination has been interpreted as illumination in the space of present knowledge.