At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sufi (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
'Umar al-Suhrawardi — model of the people of tawhid and shaykh of the gnostics in the eyes of the Path; shaykh of Baghdad's shaykhs, with whom ended the headship of training the murids and the shaykhdom of Iraq; he kept company with his uncle Abu'l-Najib al-Suhrawardi and Shaykh 'Abd al-Qadir, and heard Abu'l-Qasim b. Fadhlan. 1
His assembly and death
His preaching assembly was accepted — men swooned there and a great throng repented; his works include 'Awarif al-ma'arif, the most famous. He made the hajj often, and the shaykhs of the Path wrote him their requests for fatwas on their states. In his last years he went blind and bedridden yet missed none of his litanies; he died at Baghdad. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Baghdad
- Studied under
- Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi
People and things also explored
Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi· Baghdad· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri· Bimaristan al-Sayyida· Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 153-155
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Shihab al-Din Umar al-Suhrawardi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/umar-al-suhrawardi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.