N/A 20260420100207 London Academy of Iranian Studies philosophy@iranianstudies.org London Academy of Iranian Studies Transcendent Philosophy: An International Journal For Comparative Philosophy And Mysticism Transcendent Philosophy 1471-3217 2024 25 36 Mahmoud Nuri Tehran University of Art, Tehran Farabi was a renowned philosopher having a variety of writings in the fields of metaphysics, political philosophy, ethics, logic, mathematics, and cosmology. He was also a musician and music scholar. Moreover, he is credited with his treatises and commentaries on the original Greek texts. He held that true artists in the ‘Utopia’ should make a variety of images for philosophical issues and divine happiness, distributing them among public. Frank in his article “Castrated Raphael: Friedrich Overbeck and allegory” pointed it out that true art reflects the divine. On the other hand, Suhrawardi, the Persian philosopher and the founder of Illumination school (Maktab al-Ishraq), in his real life, acts as if he is undertaking the role of the ideal artist in Farabi’s Utopia. He has ten allegorical treatises, illustrating his philosophical views through visual metaphors. 2024 167 180 pending https://iranianstudies.org/transcendent_philosophy/volume-25-number-36/allegory-as-the-image-of-philosophy