Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi
شهاب الدين السهروردي
c. 1155 CE · 549 AH – c. 1191 CE · 587 AH
Yahya b. Habash b. Amirak — Suhrawardi al-Maqtul, the master of illuminationist hikma and student of Majd al-Din al-Jili at Maragha; the fuqaha of Aleppo licensed his killing and he was strangled in the citadel in 587 on Salah al-Din's order to al-Malik al-Zahir, aged 38; Ibn Khallikan, who lived at Aleppo, reports the city was divided over him 1.
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- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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