- Other important Muslim mystics carry the name Suhrawardi, particularly Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi and his paternal nephew Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi.
"Shahāb ad-Dīn" Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardī (, also known as
Sohrevardi) was a
Persian philosopher and founder of the
Iranian school of Illuminationism, an important school in
Islamic philosophy and
mysticism that drew upon
Zoroastrian and
Platonic ideas. The "light" in his "Philosophy of Illumination" is a divine and metaphysical source of knowledge. He is referred to by the honorific title
Shaikh al-ʿIshraq "Master of Illumination" and
Shaikh al-Maqtul "the Murdered Master", in reference to his execution for
heresy.
Mulla Sadra, the Persian sage of the Safavid era described Suhrawardi as the "Reviver of the Traces of the Pahlavi (Iranian) Sages", and Suhrawardi, in his magnum opus "The Philosophy of Illumination", thought of himself as a reviver or resuscitator of the ancient tradition of Persian wisdom.