ʿUmar as-Suhrawardī

Schihāb ad-Dīn Abū Hafs ʿUmar as-Suhrawardī (arabisch شهاب الدين أبو حفص عمر السهروردي, DMG Šihāb ad-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar as-Suhrawardī; geb. 27. Januar 1145 in Suhraward; gest. 26. September 1234 in Bagdad) war einer der bedeutendsten persischen sunnitischen Sufis aus Choresmien und Neffe von Abu an-Nadschib as-Suhrawardi. Er wirkte im Gebiet von Bagdad. Er erweiterte den Sufiorden der Suhrawardiyya, der von seinem Onkel Abu al-Nadschib Suhrawardi gegründet worden war, dafür erhielt er die Unterstützung des abbasidischen Kalifen an-Nāsir li-Dīn Allāh.

↑ William C. Chittick: ʿAWĀREF AL-MAʿĀREF, EIr
↑ John Renard, "Historical dictionary of Sufism ", Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. pg xxviii. excerpt: "Abu 'n-Najib 'Abd al-Qahir as-Suhrawardi, Persian shaykh and author, and scholar who thought Ahmad al-Ghazali, Najm al-Din Kubra and Abu Hafs 'Umar as-Suhrawardi (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche)
↑ Qamar al-Huda, "Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi" in Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z, index Volume 2 of Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Josef W. Meri, ISBN 0-415-96690-6. pp 775-776: "Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs 'Umar al-Suhrawardi belonged to a prominent Persian Sufi family and was responsible for officially organizing the Suhrawardi Sufi order"

[1] William C. Chittick: ʿAWĀREF AL-MAʿĀREF, EIr

[2] John Renard, "Historical dictionary of Sufism ", Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. pg xxviii. excerpt: "Abu 'n-Najib 'Abd al-Qahir as-Suhrawardi, Persian shaykh and author, and scholar who thought Ahmad al-Ghazali, Najm al-Din Kubra and Abu Hafs 'Umar as-Suhrawardi (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche)

[3] Qamar al-Huda, "Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi" in Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z, index Volume 2 of Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Josef W. Meri, ISBN 0-415-96690-6. pp 775-776: "Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs 'Umar al-Suhrawardi belonged to a prominent Persian Sufi family and was responsible for officially organizing the Suhrawardi Sufi order"