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Shapes of the Houris: Commentary on the Temples of Light

c. 1480 · by Jalal al-Din al-Dawani

Commentary on Suhrawardi’s short treatise The Temples of Light: body and soul, the Necessary Existent and the hierarchy of lights, prophecy and the return of the soul, read in the light of Ibn Sina’s philosophy; Ghiyath al-Din Dashtaki answered it with a counter-commentary.

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