Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi
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Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi 🇮🇷

شهاب الدين يحيى السهروردي (Known as "Shaykh al-Ishraq (Master of Illumination)")
Persian Philosopher, Founder of Illuminationism (Ishraqi), Mystic
Born 1154 CE 🇮🇷 Suhraward (Zanjan), Iran
Passed Away 29 July 1191 Aleppo, Syria
Lifespan ~37 years old
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"The essence of the First Absolute Light gives constant illumination, whereby all reality is brought into conscious manifestation."

Archival Overview

Founder of the School of Illumination (Hikmat al-Ishraq) who synthesized ancient Persian Zoroastrian wisdom, Pythagorean thought, and Platonism into a luminous ontology of radiant Light.

Biographical Record

Shahab al-Din Yahya al-Suhrawardi (1154–1191 CE), celebrated as *Shaykh al-Ishraq*, was an extraordinary Persian thinker who traveled throughout Anatolia and Syria before arriving in Aleppo under the patronage of Saladin's son, Prince al-Zahir Ghazi. He boldly revived what he called the 'eternal perennial philosophy' (*al-hikma al-khalida*).

His masterwork, Philosophy of Illumination (*Hikmat al-Ishraq*), rejected the purely Peripatetic categories in favor of an ontology of Light (*Nur*). All reality consists of varying degrees of luminosity, flowing from the supreme 'Light of Lights' (*Nur al-Anwar*). Accused of heresy by orthodox jurists, he was martyred in the Citadel of Aleppo at age 37.

Key Life Milestones

1186 CE

Completion of 'Hikmat al-Ishraq'

Authored his magnum opus outlining the epistemology of presence and the metaphysics of universal light.

July 1191 CE

Martyrdom at the Citadel of Aleppo

Sentenced to death in Aleppo, cementing his enduring status as the 'Martyred Master' (Al-Shaykh al-Maqtul).

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Final Resting Place

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Citadel of Aleppo Memorial Shrine
Aleppo, Syria
GPS: 36.1992, 37.1625
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