Avail Yourself Mystical And Visionary Treatises Of Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi Drafted By Sheikh Shahabudin Suhrawardi Delivered In Digital Edition

The father of the illuminist school of Islam, hikmat al ishraq, Suhrawardi presents the means by which the soul, purified by its' yearning for its' celestial home, may catch of glimpse of the radiant Beloved.
Sheikh Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi, the great illuminist philosopher and mystic of theth century, evoked such opposition and hatred in the orthodox of his time that he was put to death, at the insistence and by order of Saladins nephew in.
He became known thereafter as the "Murdered Sheikh, "  In addition to his monumental exposition, The Wisdom of Illumination, and other major works, he left a number of smaller treatises which form an important part of the Sufi heritage.
Nine of these treatises, dealing with the initiation of the aspirant into the spiritual realm, are here presented in English, with an introduction by the translator, W.
M. Thackston, Jr. .