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

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.