Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani
Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414) (Persian علی بن محمد جرجانی) was a Persian encyclopedic writer and traditionalist theologian. He was born near Astarabad and became a professor in Shiraz. When this city was plundered by Timur (1387) he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death.
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).
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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External links
- Dhanani, Alnoor (2007). "Jurjānī: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al‐Ḥusaynī al‐Jurjānī (al‐Sayyid al–Sharīf)". In Thomas Hockey et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 603–4. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)
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