pelt (medicine) and Suhrawardi, al- (sh)

pelt (medicine)

pelt

1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. "The children billows seem to pelt the clouds." (Shak)

2. To throw; to use as a missile. "My Phillis me with pelted apples plies." (Dryden)

Origin: OE. Pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. Pultare, equiv. To pulsare (v. Freq. Fr. Pellere to drive), and E. Pulse a beating.

1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. "Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes." (Fuller)

2. The human skin.

3. <veterinary> The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

Origin: Cf. G. Pelz a pelt, fur, fr. OF. Pelice, F. Pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. Shortened fr. Peltry.

Source: Websters Dictionary

Suhrawardi, al- (sh)

in full Shihab al-Din Ya?ya ibn ?abash ibn Amirak al-Suhrawardi or al-Maqtul

born с 1155, Suhraward, Iran
died 1191, Aleppo, Syria

Muslim theologian and philosopher.

He studied in E?fahan, a leading centre of Islamic scholarship. His works fell into two categories: doctrinal and philosophical tracts, many of which took account of the ancient Greek philosophers, and shorter treatises intended to guide the mystic toward esoteric knowledge. His best-known work, The Wisdom of Illumination, held that existence is a single continuum that culminates in pure light, representing God. Charged with heresy by rivals in the Muslim clergy, he was executed by the Ayyubid prince Malik al-?ahir
thus earning himself the appellation al-Maqtul ("the Killed").

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