Henry Corbin and Suhrawardi: Light, Vision, and the Reality of Being

Abstract

What if reality isn't hidden behind the world — but revealed through it as light? In Henry Corbin and Suhrawardi: Light, Vision, and the Reality of Being, Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad — Lecturer at Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh, Indonesia — reopens one of philosophy's most luminous and overlooked traditions: the ontology of light. Drawing on Suhrawardi's illuminationist thought and Henry Corbin's visionary hermeneutics, this book reimagines existence not as static substance, but as presence, gradation, and self-disclosure. You'll explore the crisis of modern perception, the imaginal world (mundus imaginalis), imagination as an organ of truth, and knowledge as vision rather than representation — a philosophy that doesn't just explain reality, but teaches you to see it. For scholars, students, and seekers of depth beyond conventional thought, this is your entry point into a radically different way of understanding being.