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The 12th-century Sufi Shihabuddun Yahya al-Suhrawardi was the founder of the Illuminationist or Ishraqi school, a philosophy of light or intellectual intuition influenced by Platonism, Hermeticism, and the teachings of Persian Sufi masters. al-Suhrawardi spent most of his adult life in Persia, where he died after being imprisoned by authorities for his beliefs.
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