Al-Tusi

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Al-Tusi or Tusi is the title of several Iranian scholars who were born in the town of Tous in Khorasan. Some of the scholars with the al-Tusi title include:

  • Abu Nasr as-Sarraj al-Tūsī (d. 988), Sufi sheikh and historian.
  • Aḥmad al Ṭūsī (d. 1193), Persian author of a book known by the same title as
    ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt
    of Qazwini.
  • Asadi Tusi (d. 1072), Persian poet.
  • Ferdowsi Tusi (935–1020), Persian poet.
  • Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī
    (1201–1274), Persian polymath.
  • Nizam al-Mulk al-Tusi (1018–1092), Persian vizier.
  • Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī
    or Sharafeddin Tusi (1135–1213), Persian mathematician.
  • Shaykh Tusi or Abu Ja'far al-Tusi (995–1067), Islamic scholar.