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Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi

Persian philosopher
"Shihāb ad-Dīn" Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardī was a Persian philosopher and founder of the Iranian school of Illuminationism, an important school in Islamic philosophy. The "light" in his "Philosophy of Illumination" is the source of knowledge. Wikipedia
Born: 1154, Sohrevard, Iran
Died: 1191 (age 37 years), Aleppo, Syria
Influenced by: Ibn Sina, al-Farabi, Plato, and more
Based in: Suhraward
Period in office: 12th century
School: Illuminationism; Perennial philosophy