Sirāj al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Abī Bakr Urmawī

Sirāj al-Dīn Mahmūd ibn Abī Bakr Urmavī was a Shafiʽi jurist, logician and philosopher from Urmia in Azerbaijan, a region in north-western Iran. He spent most of his scholarly life in Ayyubid-ruled Cairo, and from 1257 in Seljuk-ruled Konya. The Iranian diaspora he was part of, proficient in Persian and Arabic, contributed majorly to the Islamization and Persianization of Anatolia. Most of his extant works were written in Arabic but there is also one known work in Persian. He was an acquaintance of Rumi.