ORIJENTALNA MUDROST - TEOZOFIJA SVJETLOSTI
Oriental wisdom - Theosophy of light

Author(s): Shaykh Shihabuddin Suhrawardi al-Maqtul
Contributor(s): Rešid Hafizović (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Islam studies, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Middle-East Philosophy
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Suhrawardī; Persian philosophy; Sufism; Shaykh al-Ishrāq; lluminationist philosophy; Ishraqi school of Sufism;
Summary/Abstract: Shihāb ad-Dīn Yahyā ibn Amirak ibn Abī al-Futuh Suhrawardī, renowned Persian philosophy, theosopher and Sufi, was born in 549 AH (1155 CE) in the province of al-Jabal in Azerbaijan, formerly a province in north-western Iran. He is now known in philosophical and theosophical works as Shaykh al-Ishrāq (master of Illuminationist philosophy), in recognition of his founding a distinct philosophical, theosophical and Sufi tradition known as Falsafa al-Ishrāq (illuminationist philosophy) or al-hikma al-mashriqīyya (oriental theosophy). He was imprisoned in Aleppo on the orders of Salah ad-Dīn (Saladin), on account of his Sufi teachings, and finally put to death at the age of thirty or thirty-eight (1191). He is thus also known in Sufi writings as Shaykh al-Maqtūl (the murdered master) or the martyred shaykh (shahīd). The most comprehensive information about his life is now to be found in a work by his pupil Shahrazūrī, also known as an authentic commentator on Suhrawardī’s great work of philosophy entitled Kitāb hikma al-ishrāq (the Book of Illuminationist Wisdom).

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