Tabriz

Tabriz, in Azerbaijan province of northwestern Iran, was a major commercial city and at times a capital under the Ilkhanid Mongols and the Aq Qoyunlu and early Safavids. The Qur'an commentator al-Baydawi (d. c. 1286), author of the widely studied Anwar al-Tanzil, served as qadi in the city; the philosopher Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i (d. 1981) was born nearby and took the nisba Tabrizi.