TEHRAN -- A statue of Persian philosopher Sohrevardi was unveiled during a ceremony at the Zanjan Islamic Azad University on July 29 marking the National Sohrevardi Day.

Several scholars, university professors and cultural officials attended the ceremony
At the ceremony, the head of the Asghar Partovi University said that luminaries such as Sohrevardi should be an inspiration to Iranian youth and university students in their lives.
“At first, we considered decorating the campus with fountains but later on, we came to the conclusion that establishing statues of such luminaries as Sohrevardi, whose hometown was Zanjan, would be more appropriate,” he added.
The one-meter statue stands on a 120-centimeter high pedestal. The construction of the statue took three months.
Also known as the “The Master of Oriental Theosophy”, Shahab al-Din Yahya Sohrevardi was born in 1155 in the village of Suhravard, a Kurdish village located between the present-day towns of Zanjan and Bijar. He was executed at Age of 36 or 38 in 1191 in Aleppo.
In his writings, Sohravardi attempted a synthesis of Zoroastrian, Platonic, and Islamic ideas. The “Orient” of his “Oriental Theosophy” is the symbolic Orient, using the East and the dawn as a metaphor of Spiritual Light and Knowledge.