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SHIHABADDIN YAHYA IBN HABAS IBN AMIRAK AL-SUHRAWARDI (D. AH 587/1191 AD): HIKMAT AL-ISRAQ

COPIED BY MUHAMMAD AL-MALIKI AL-ASH'ARI, PROBABLY SYRIA, END OF DHU'L QA'DA AH 973/MID-JUNE 1566 AD

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SHIHABADDIN YAHYA IBN HABAS IBN AMIRAK AL-SUHRAWARDI (D. AH 587/1191 AD): HIKMAT AL-ISRAQ
COPIED BY MUHAMMAD AL-MALIKI AL-ASH'ARI, PROBABLY SYRIA, END OF DHU'L QA'DA AH 973/MID-JUNE 1566 AD
On mysticism, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 63ff. with 19ll. of black naskh, titles in green or red, final folio with colophon dated end of Dhu'l Qa'da 973 copied by Abu'l Sa'ud ibn Muhammad al-Maliki al-Ash'ari, slight water staining and worm damage, brown morocco binding with marbled paper overlay
Text 6¼ x 4¼in. (15.9 x 10.8cm.); folio 8½ x 6in. (21.5 x 15.5cm.)

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Shihabaddin Yahya ibn Habas ibn Amirak al-Suhrawardi studed fiqh in Maragh and, as a Sufi dervish, travelled in Anatolia. His teachings on the Way were disseminated through this work the Hiqmat al-Israq at the court of the Seljuk ruler Qilic Arslan II. Suhrawardi's followers, the Israqiyun or Nurbahsiya, spread his teachings through the Persian world. At the centre of his philosophy was Light as the source of all existence. His ideas were eventually to lead to his execution at the court of the son of Salah al-Din, Baha' al-Din, in Aleppo (C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur, Leiden 1943, GAL I, p.437).

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