Siraj al-Din Urmavi
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Not to be confused with Safi al-Din al-Urmawi.
Sirāj al-Dīn Mahmūd ibn Abī Bakr Urmavī (also spelled Urmawī; 1198–1283) was a Shafiʽi jurist, logician and philosopher from Urmia in Azerbaijan, a region in north-western Iran.[3] 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.[4] Most of his extant works were written in Arabic but there is also one known work in Persian.[5] He was an acquintance of Rumi.[6]