Abstract:

Shams al-Dīn Muhammad b. Mahmūd al-Shahrazūrī (d. 687/after 1288), one of the significant representatives of the illumination philosophy tradition, was born in Shahrazūr which is located between Erbīl and Hamadān. al-Shahrazūrī about whose life we have limited information not only wrote glosses for the works by Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī al-Maqtūl (d. 587/1191). He also wrote independent works. Giving place to logic, physics and metaphysics subjects in his works, al-Shahrazūrī handled classification of sciences. The classification by al-Shahrazūrī who based philosophy on ontology depending on existence and verbs (actions) included the impacts of primarily Ibn Sīnā and al-Suhrawardī. The impacts of Ibn Sīnā’s (d. 428/1037) epistle entitled Risāla fī aqsāmal-ʽulūm al-ʽaqliyya which was related to philosophical and rational sciences were particularly obvious. No study has so far been conducted in relation with classification of sciences by al-Shahrazūrī who used “the divine tree motif” within the tradition of classification of sciences in Islamic thought. This paper aims to review and evaluate classification of sciences in the works by al-Shahrazūrī who discussed sciences depending on the tradition of classification of sciences in Islamic thought.

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