Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
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 Photo taken from medieval manuscript by Qotbeddin Shirazi. The image depicts an epicyclic planetary model.
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| Name: | Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi |
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| Birth: | 1236AD |
| Death: | 1311AD |
| Maddhab: | Sufi |
| Main interests: | Mathematics, Astronomy, medicine, science and philosophy |
| Works: | Almagest, The Royal Present ,Pearly Crown, etc |
| Influences: | Nasir al-Din Tusi, Ibn al-Haytham, Suhrawardi |
| Influenced: | Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī |
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236 – 1311) (Persian: قطبالدین شیرازی) was a 13th century Persian Muslim astronomer, mathematician, physician, physicist and scientist and from Shiraz, Iran.
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He and his master Nasir al-Din Tusi wrote critiques of the Almagest of Ptolemy. He also continued the optical studies of Alhazen. It was Qutb al-Din who first gave a correct explanation for the formation of the rainbow, which was elaborated on by his student Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī.
He produced two prominent works on astronomy - The Limit of Accomplishment concerning Knowledge of the Heavens (Nihayat al-idrak fi dirayat al-aflak) completed in 1281, and The Royal Present (Al-Tuhfat al-Shahiya) completed in 1284. Both presented his models for planetary motion, improving on Ptolemy's principles. [1] In his The Limit of Accomplishment concerning Knowledge of the Heavens, he also discussed the possibility of heliocentrism.[2]
Besides astronomy he wrote extensively on medicine, mathematics and "traditional" Islamic sciences.
Qutb al-Din was also a Sufi from a family of Sufis in Shiraz. He is famous for the commentary on Hikmat al-ishraq of Suhrawardi, the most influential work of Islamic Illuminist philosophy. Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's most famous work is the Pearly Crown (Durrat al-taj li-ghurratt al-Dubaj), written in Persian around AD 1306 (705 AH).
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