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‘To [the Persian as-Suhrawardi “al-Maqtūl”]* is attributed the philosophy of ishrāq (“illumination”), and he claimed to unite Persian (Zoroastrian) and Egyptian (Hermetic) traditions. His didactic and doctrinal works in Arabic among other things taught a complicated angelology (theory of angels); some of his smaller Persian treatises depict the journey of the soul across the cosmos; the “Orient” (East) is the world of pure lights and archangels, the “Occident” (West) that of darkness and matter; and man lives in the “Western exile”.’

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*[– ibid. (Encyclopaedia Britannica 22: 22)]

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