Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi

Abū al-Najīb Abd al-Qahhar Suhrawardī (Persian: ابوالنجیب عبدالقادر سهروردی) (1097–1168) was a Sunni[1] Persian[2][3] Sufi who was born in Sohrevard, near Zanjan, and founded the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order.

He then later on set up a retreat by the river Tigris, where he gathered disciples, which eventually came to be the Sufi order of Suhrawardiyya which included Ahmed Al-Ghazali, the younger brother of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali.

His paternal nephew Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi expanded the order.

His name is also sometimes transcribed as Diya al-din Abu 'n-Najib as-Suhrawardi.

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