Shams al-Din al-Shahrazuri

Shams al-Din al-Shahrazuri was a thirteenth century Kurdish physician, historian and philosopher, apparently still alive in 1288, about whom little further biographical detail survives. He compiled Nuzhat al-Arwah wa Rawdat al-Afrah, a biographical dictionary covering both ancient Greek thinkers and early Islamic scholars, which survives in several manuscript copies. His philosophical work centers on the Illuminationist school founded by Suhrawardi, and his commentary Sharh Hikmat al-Ishraq influenced later scholars, including Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's own widely read commentary on the same text. He is also credited with al-Shajarah al-Ilahiyyah, the Divine Tree, considered an especially faithful exposition of Suhrawardi's Illuminationist philosophy, and he wrote medical treatises in both Arabic and Persian.