Athir al-Din al-Abhari
Al-Abhārī | |
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Died | 1262–1265 Naṣīr al‐Dīn al-Ṭūsī.[1] |
Athīr al‐Dīn al‐Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar ibn al‐Mufaḍḍal al‐Samarqandī al‐Abharī, also known as Athīr al‐Dīn al‐Munajjim (d. in 1265 or 1262mathematician. Other than his influential writings, he had many famous disciples.
Life
His birthplace is contested among sources. According to the Adharbayjan.[1]
He is said to have been a student or teacher in various schools in
Fakhr al‐Dīn al‐Rāzī
.
Works
- Astronomy
- Risāla fī al‐hayʾa (Treatise on astronomy).
- Mukhtaṣar fī al‐hayʾa (Epitome on astronomy).
- Kashf al‐ḥaqāʾiq fī taḥrīr al‐daqāʾiq, where he accepts the view that the celestial bodies do not change and maintains that stars have volition and it is the source of their motion.[1]
- Mathematics
- Several works on Iṣlāḥ (Correction) of Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī.[1]
- Philosophy
- Hidayah al-Hikmah (Guide on Philosophy): a book dealing with the complete cycle of Hikmat, i.e., logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics.
- Isāghūjī fi al-Manṭiq (Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge), a treatise on logic. Latin Translation by Thomas Obicini; Īsāghūkhī, Isagoge. Id est, breve Introductorium Arabicum in Scientiam Logices: cum versione latina: ac theses Sanctae Fidei. R. P. F. Thomae Novariensis (1625).
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Sarıoğlu 2007.
- Barhebraeus
- ^ Heidrun, Eichner (December 2008). "Al-Abharī, Athīr al-Dīn". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Brill. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ CGIE. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica".
References
- Sarıoğlu, Hüseyin (2007). "Abharī: Athīr al‐Dīn al‐Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar ibn al‐Mufaḍḍal al‐Samarqandī al‐Abharī". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)
- Masjid Darus Salam. "al- Abharī, At̲h̲īr al-Dīn Mufaḍḍal b. ʿUmar." A Brief Biographical Sketch of Imām Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī By Mohammad Mustafa Ali (4th Year Alim Student, DarusSalam Seminary).
Further reading
- Calverley, Edwin E. (1933). "Al-Abharī's "Isāghūjī fi l-Manṭiq"". Macdonald.
External links
- Isagoge of al-Ahbārī with Latin translation and a theological treatise by Thomas Obicini (Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France).