Aḥmad al-Suhrawardī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Suhrawardī (654–741/1256–1340), was a renowned Persian calligrapher and musician. He was born in Baghdad and versed in the adab style of Arabic literature (q.v.), Shāfiʿī law and rational sciences (al-ʿulūm al-ʿaqliyya). He was skilled in recitation of the Qurʾān as well as the Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī. Al-Suhrawardī studied ḥadīth with such authorities as ʿImād al-Dīn Abū al-Barakāt b. Ṭabbāl (d. 708/1308) and Rashīd al-Dīn Abū ʿ…