ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAmmuwayh Abū Ḥafṣ al-Suhrawardī

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"founder of the Suhrawardi Order" 3

Names

  • Arabic: عمر بن محمد بن عبد الله بن عمويه أبو حفص السهروردي = ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAmmuwayh Abū Ḥafṣ al-Suhrawardī 1
  • Arabic: شهاب الدين أبو حفص عمر بن محمد بن عبد الله السهرودي = Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ‘Umar b. Abdallāh al-Suhrawardī 2

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 290 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 2:32 [Arabic].
    • Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ‘Omar b. Abdallāh al-Suhrawardī: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), II, 297 [English].
  • 3A. D. H. Bivar, The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354: Index (London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000), vol. 5, s.v. [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAmmuwayh Abū Ḥafṣ al-Suhrawardī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/7836.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; Wikipedia matching; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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