clothing has never mastered us. As for the sultan, he summoned the ʿarīf and said, “I want the gem.”
He replied, “It belongs to the son of al-Iftikhār.”

The sultan thereupon came down to the madrasa, met with al-Suhrawardī, and took him away with him. Al-Suhrawardī soon enjoyed great prominence: he debated the jurists and rendered them incapable of reply … until he said:—

They then issued a legal opinion permitting his blood to be shed; it was said that he was strangled. Some time later al-Ẓāhir imprisoned several of those who had given that ruling and confiscated their property.

Al-Sadīd Maḥmūd ibn Zuqayqah (1) told me: “I was strolling with al-Suhrawardī in the congregational mosque of Mayyāfāriqīn. He was wearing a short robe, with a cloth wrapped around his head, and a zarbūl, looking like a kharbanda (2).”

Shihāb also composed fine poetry (3).

His writings include: al-Talwīḥāt al-Lawḥiyya wa al-ʿArshiyya, al-Lamḥa, Hayākil al-Nūr, al-Maʿārij wa al-Maṭāraḥāt, and Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq; the rest of his works do not fall within the Islamic sciences.

He had studied under al-Majd al-Jīlī in Marāgha, adhered to the Shāfiʿī school, and bore the epithet al-Muʾayyad bi’l-Malakūt (“Fortified by the Celestial Realm”).

Ibn Khallikān (4) said: “He was accused of libertinism and of denying the divine attributes, and was thought to follow the doctrine of the ancients. This became widely known, and the scholars of Aleppo issued a verdict for his execution—the most forceful among them being al-Zayn….”