 All these elements were combined in succeeding years. For instance, in a famous debate at the beginning of the flowering of philosophy in Iran, al-Dawānī (d. 1501) read Avicenna in a manner influenced by Suhrawardī (on whom he commented) and Ibn ‘Arabī; whereas his critics, the al-Dashtakīs, father and son (d. 1498, d. 1542), kept closer to the  text.[25]