Qutbut d-din Mahmoud ibn Masoud al-Shirazi ( Pers. قطبالدین شیرازی , Kaserun , 1236 - Tabriz , 1311 ) - an outstanding Persian astronomer , mathematician , philosopher, doctor.
| Al-shirazi | |
|---|---|
| قطبالدین شیرازی | |
 Ash Shirazi Manuscript Thumbnail | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Kazerun |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
| A country | |
| Scientific field | astronomy , mathematics , philosophy , medicine |
| Place of work | Maragin Observatory |
| supervisor | al-Tusi, Nasir al-Din |
| Famous students | Nizamuddin Al Naisaburi |
An employee of the Maragha Observatory , a student of Nasir al-Din at-Tusi . Being the most powerful student of al-Tusi, al-Shirazi gained authority comparable to that of a teacher, which led to their quarrel and to the departure of at-Tusi from Maragi. Al-Shirazi was a judge in various cities in northwestern Iran. After the successful completion of the diplomatic mission of the Mongolian Ilkhan Ahmed Tekuder in Egypt, al-Shirazi returned to Tabriz . Here, al-Shirazi led the observatory, which became the successor to the Maragha observatory at-Tusi. The large mathematician and astronomer al-Naisaburi and the optician al-Farisi worked at the Tabriz Observatory.
Al-Shirazi owns the encyclopedic work “The Pearl of the Crown for Decorating Dibaj,” commentary on the “Arithmetic” by Nikomakh Gerazsky , commentary on the treatise “On the rolling motion and on the relation between flat and curved” (it is assumed that this treatise belongs to at-Tusi), the treatise "The Limit of Comprehension in the Knowledge of the Celestial Spheres", commentary on the "Canon of Medical Science" by Ibn Sina and a number of other works.
Qutb ad-Din al-Shirazi was also a famous Sufi . He owns a commentary on the Shahab ad-Din Yahya Suhrawardi treatise, “The Wisdom of Illumination.”
Selected Works
- Al-Shirazi . Commentary on the treatise on the rolling motion and on the relation between the plane and the curve // From the history of physical and mathematical sciences in the medieval East. - M .: Nauka, 1983 .-- S. 175-203.
- Al-Shirazi. A royal gift in the field of astronomy // Ancient and medieval sources on ethnography and the history of Africa south of the Sahara / Transl. V.V. Matveeva. - M .: Eastern literature, 2002. - T. 4: Arab sources of the XIII-XIV centuries .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
Literature
- Luther I.O. The problem of the incommensurability of the circumference and diameter of a circle in the context of the teachings of Aristotle: works of at-Tusi and al-Shirazi // Historical and mathematical research. - 2002. - No. 7 (42) . - S. 243—261 .
- Medvedev A.F. Horn-shaped corners in the Commentary of al-Shirazi // History and Methodology of Natural Sciences. - 1989. - No. 36 . - S. 84-92 .
- Rosenfeld B. A. On the mathematical work of Qutb ad-Din al-Shirazi // Historical and mathematical research. - 1980. - No. 25 . - S. 320—327 .