Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi a (1097–1168) was a kurdish sufi (Sunni religion).who was born in Sohrevardnear Zanjan and founded the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order..According to Ibn Hawqal,the kurdish geographer of the fourth century AH, the people of Suhraward, spoke Kurdish and Kurdish were descendants.
He studied Islamic law in Baghdad, then set up a retreat by the river Tigris, where he gathered disciples, which eventually came to be the Sufi order of Suhrawardiyya.
His paternal nephew Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi expanded the order.
His name is also sometimes transcribed as Diya al-din Abu 'n-Najib as-Suhrawardi.
References
^ Muḥammad Kamāl, Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy, Ashgate Publishing Inc, 2006, ISBN 0-7546-5271-8, p. 12.
^ John Renard, "Historical dictionary of Sufism ", Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. pg xxviii. excerpt: "Abu 'n-Najib 'Abd al-Qahir as-Suhrawardi, Persian shaykh and author, and scholar who thought Ahmad al-Ghazali, Najm al-Din Kubra and Abu Hafs 'Umar as-Suhrawardi
^ Qamar al-Huda, "Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi" in Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z, index Volume 2 of Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Josef W. Meri, ISBN 0-415-96690-6. pp 775-776: "Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs 'Umar al-Suhrawardi belonged to a prominent Persian Sufi family and was responsible for officially organizing the Suhrawardi Sufi order"
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