The acknowledgment that matters: Łukasz Piątak on my 2025 Edition of Suhrawardī’s al-Wāridāt wa’l-Taqdīsāt
https://brill.com/display/title/74625 There are moments in scholarly disputes when the most consequential acknowledgment comes not from a sympathetic reviewer, nor from an ally, but from the scholar whose work one has sharply criticized. Such an acknowledgment has now appeared in Łukasz Piątak’s new Brill volume, Divine Inspirations and Sanctifications: A Parallel English-Arabic Text , his critical edition, translation, and commentary on Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā al-Suhrawardī’s al-Wāridāt wa’l-Taqdīsāt . Readers familiar with my work will know that in November 2025 I published Prayers to the Orient of Light , containing the Arabic text of the Wāridāt , my complete English translation, and extensive textual and interpretive notes in the form of glosses. Piątak’s work on the text does not, however, predate mine since I began working on this text in the late 1990s, but without possession of all the MSS . Instead his critical edition underlying his present book originated in his 2...
