Iran Press/Iran news: National Suhrawardi Day is considered a significant cultural event for Iranians to commemorate Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi.
Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash ibn Amirak Suhrawardi, 'Shayk al-Ishraq' (The Master of Illumination) was born in 1154 in the small town of Suhraward, near Zanjan, north-west of Iran.
The theologian and philosopher was a leading figure of the illuminationist school of Islamic philosophy.
In 1186, at the age of thirty-two, he completed his magnum opus, The Philosophy of Illumination.
He was executed sometime between 1191 and 1208 in Aleppo on charges of cultivating Batini teachings and philosophy, by the order of al-Malik al-Zahir, son of Saladin.
Mulla Sadra, the Persian sage of the Safavid era described Suhrawardi as the "Reviver of the Traces of the Pahlavi (Iranian) Sages", and Suhrawardi, in his magnum opus "The Philosophy of Illumination", thought of himself as a reviver or resuscitator of the ancient tradition of Persian wisdom. 101/211
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