| Al-Sharif al-Jurjani | |
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,_Sharh_tadkira_(a_commentary_on_al-Tusi%27s_Kitab_al-tadhkira,_on_astronomy),_Persia,_Timurid,_dated_1410.jpg) Manuscript of Jurjani's Sharh Tadkira (a commentary on Nasir al-Din Tusi's Kitab al-tadhkira, on astronomy). Copy created in Timurid Iran, dated 1410. This particular copy is the oldest extant version of the work and was created during Jurjani's lifetime | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1339 CE Ṭāḡu near Astarabad in Gorgān |
| Died | 1414 CE Shiraz |
| Era | early Timurid period |
| Region | Shiraz |
| Main interest(s) | Kalam((arabic grammar)) (Islamic theology), Mantiq (logic), Falkiat |
| Notable work(s) | Jurjani Definitions, Sharh al-Mawaqif |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
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Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414) (Persian علی بن محمد جرجانی) was a Persian encyclopedic writer, scientist, and traditionalist theologian. He is referred to as "al-Sayyid al-Sharif" in sources due to his alleged descent from Ali ibn Abi Taleb. He was born in the village of Ṭāḡu near Astarabad in Gorgan (hence the nisba "Jurjani"), and became a professor in Shiraz. When this city was plundered by Timur in 1387, he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death.
The author of more than fifty books, of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the Taʿrīfāt (تعريفات "Definitions"), which was edited by G Flügel (Leipzig, 1845), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, etc.), and St Petersburg (1897).
See also
- List of people from Gorgan
- List of Hanafis
- List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
- List of Muslim theologians
- List of Sufis
References
- ^ van Ess, Josef (2009). "JORJĀNI, ZAYN-AL-DIN ABU'L-ḤASAN ʿALI". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 1. pp. 21–29.
- Gündüz, Şinasi, and Cafer S. Yaran, eds. Change and Essence: dialectical relations between change and continuity in the Turkish intellectual tradition. Vol. 18. CRVP, 2005.
- Ragep, F. Jamil, and Alī al-Qūshjī. "Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy: An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science." Osiris 16 (2001): 49-71.
- Donzel, E. J. van (1 January 1994). Islamic Desk Reference. BRILL. p. 192. ISBN 90-04-09738-4.
al-Jurjani, Ali* b. Muhammad (al-Sayyid al-Sharif): Persian grammarian, philosopher and linguist; 1339-1413.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Jurjānī s.v. ʽAlī ibn Maḥommed ul-Jurjānī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 587.
- Kifayat Ullah, Al-Kashshaf: Al-Zamakhshari's Mu'tazilite Exegesis of the Qur'an, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG (2017), p. 40
- Kitâb Ta`rîfat al-`ulûm wa tahqîqât r-rusûm, Edition critique: Abdelmoula HAGIL, Paris, 2019, 536p.
External links
- Dhanani, Alnoor (2007). "Jurjānī: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (al-Sayyid al–Sharīf)". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 603–4. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)
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