ABSTRACT
Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabash ibn Amīrak Abu’l-Futūḥ Suhrawardī is well-known in the history of Islamic philosophy as the Master of Illumination (Shaykh al-Ishrāq), a reference to his accepted position as the founder of a new school of philosophy distinct from the Peripatetic school (madhhab, or maktab al-mashshā’ūn). Suhrawardī was born in the small town of Suhraward in north-western Persia in the year 549/1154. He met a violent death by execution in Aleppo in the year 587/1191 1 and therefore is also sometimes called the Executed Master (al-Shaykh al-Maqtūl).
