With the death of Averroes, the phase of Arab philosophy more closely linked to Aristotle's thought came to an end, giving way to a type of theosophy of illumination linked to Sohrawardi and a certain mystical theosophy linked to Ibn 'Arabi, both returning to the philosophy of Avicenna, but with a more mystical approach.

         Sohrawardi, the master of philosophy of illumination, was born in Iran in 1155 AD and died very young, at just 36 years of age. His thought revived older traditions of Persian origin, whose meditative horizon was dominated by the figures of Hermes, Plato and Zarathustra. In this scenario, the term “Platonists of Persia” designated this school that, among other theories, interpreted the Platonic archetypes under Zoroastrian angelology.

         Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240 AD) was born in southern Spain and died at around 75 years of age. His mystical works show a systematization that was only possible thanks to adaptations of elements from falsafa, notably Avicenna's ideas.

        Muhamad al-Jabri (1936-2010 AD), a Moroccan philosopher, in his Critique of Arab Reason, disapproves of the exaggerated mystical path of certain interpretations of Avicenna's thought and proposes a return to the paths indicated by Averroes' Aristotelianism as a safe way for a new renaissance of philosophy in the Arab-Islamic world. The paths still seem open.

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