department of islamic philosophy and wisdom, university of zanjan the “mashriqiyya principle”, trusted by the persian theosophists and the basis for their light wisdom that suhrawardī tried to revive, is the principle of light and darkness. philosophy of illumination (ḥikmat ishrāq), as a discursive-intuitive philosophy, is a light-oriented metaphysical wisdom. in this wisdom, light is the secr...

I deas about teacher education are strongly influenced by a received wisdom about learning to teach. Most citizens in the United States who have thought much about teaching subscribe to the received wisdom, and most teachers subscribe to it as well. The most vocal and visible group not subscribing to the received wisdom is teacher educators. Here is why. According to received wisdom, teaching i...