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Gem Smash Lesson With Saladin's Son
- Suhrawardi impressed a teenage prince by smashing a valuable gem to teach a lesson about values.
- He arrived in Aleppo dressed like a donkey driver, accepted clothes from a madrasa boy, then broke the gem after the prince bid 30,000 dirhams.
Writings, Not Students, Built A School
- Suhrawardi fused rigorous logic with mystical wisdom and inspired a lasting Illuminationist tradition taken up by readers and commentators after his death.
- He wasn't an immediate teacher of followers but his writings spurred centuries of commentary and influence in Persia.
Two Paths Of Philosophical Knowledge
- Suhrawardi divides philosophy into two complementary paths: inquiry and intuition, and says the perfect philosopher masters both.
- Inquiry is Avicennian discursive reasoning; intuition is direct apprehension of God and immaterial lights praised from Plato and Sufi sources.