City
5 sourced records · 1 verified locations
The atlas holds 5 sourced records for Tebriz; every record is published with scholarly review and a citation chain. Breakdown: 3 Saint · 1 Scholar · 1 Prophet's Family.
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (b. 1236 Kazerun – d. 1311 Tabriz) was a Persian polymath and philosopher who contributed to astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism. He is noted for astronomical work improving on Ptolemy's planetary models and for his medical commentary on Avicenna's Canon. He died in Tabriz and was buried in the city's Charandab cemetery.
A Sufi of Tabriz; successor of Rukn al-Din Muhammad al-Sujasi and master of Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Tabrizi, he is a 7th/13th-century link of the Khalwati chain. His death date is not firmly known and no reliable record of his grave exists. (Sources: TDV 'Ibrahim Zahid-i Gilani' — silsila record; Hulvi, Lamazat-i Hulviyya.)
A sayyid Sufi of Tabriz; successor of Shihab al-Din Mahmud al-Tabrizi and master of Ibrahim Zahid al-Gilani — the TDV encyclopedia traces Ibrahim Zahid's chain through him to Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi. He has no standalone TDV entry; his death date is uncertain (7th/13th century) and no reliable record of his grave exists. (Sources: TDV 'Ibrahim Zahid-i Gilani'; TDV 'Zahidiyya'.)
Abu Abdillah Siraj al-Din Umar b. Akmal al-Din al-Gilani al-Khalwati (d. 800/1397 [?]) was born in Lahijan in Gilan; he became a disciple of his uncle Akhi Muhammad and, renowned for his long retreats (khalwa), became the founding pir of the Khalwatiyya, one of the most widespread Sufi orders of the Islamic world. According to the TDV encyclopedia he died in Tabriz and was buried in the cemetery of the Mir Ali Zawiya; some studies instead place his grave at the Pir Umar Sultan shrine in Avakhil village near Shamakhi. As the burial place is disputed, no coordinates are given. (Sources: TDV 'Umar al-Khalwati'; TDV 'Khalwatiyya'.)
The shrine of Sayyid Hamza, regarded as a son of the seventh Imam Musa al-Kazim (a sayyid of the Prophet's family). Though his lineage carries a minor dispute, he is accepted as a sayyid of an Imam's line. His death year is not reliably documented. In the Sheshgelan district of Tabriz, the shrine — famous for its mirror-work — is an active mosque and pilgrimage site. (Sources: Wikidata Q6003204; English Wikipedia.)
