Suhraward

Suhraward was a town in the Jibal region of northwestern Iran, between Zanjan and Bijar (in modern Zanjan province), now largely vanished. It gave its nisba to several major figures: the 'Master of Illumination' al-Suhrawardi al-Maqtul (executed 1191), founder of the Illuminationist (Ishraqi) philosophy, and the Sufi masters Abu al-Najib and Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi, eponyms of the Suhrawardiyya order.