Reza Pourjavady, Sabine Schmidtke. Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 710/1311) as a Teacher: An Analysis of his ijāzāt (Studies on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī III)

quṭb al-dīn shīrāzī as depicted in early historical sources

starting his intellectual life as a precociously young medical practitioner, quṭb al-dīn shīrāzī (634-710 a.h.) was compelled to wander far and wide in his quest for knowledge. recognized and admired as a savant, and enjoying the patronage of key political figures of his era, shīrāzī's activities as a scholar continued even during his appointment as judge in rūm, and while serving as ambas...

quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī’s appendix to book i of his persian translation of euclid: text, context, influence

the first part of the paper describes the persian translation of naṣīr al-dīn al-ṭūsī’s taḥrīr kitāb uqlīdis by quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī, with a primary focus on his appendix to book i. part of a larger encyclopedic collection, al-shīrāzī’s translation continued to be read for centuries. as evidence of the work’s influence, al-shīrāzī’s appendix to book i was included in a nineteenth century prin...

quṭb al-dīn shīrāzī’s medical work, al-tuḥfa al-saʿdīya (commentary on volume 1 of ibn sīnā’s al-qānūn fī al- ṭibb) and its sources

quṭb al-dīn shīrāzī wrote several huge works not only on mathematical sciences and philosophy, but also on medicine: a commentary on volume 1 of ibn sīnā’s al-qānūn fī al-ṭibb entitled al-tuḥfa al-saʿdīya in nine volumes. this is not surprising because quṭb al-dīn came from a family of physicians and he received medical education in his youth by reading ibn sīnā’s qānūn. this enormous commentar...

a review of quṭb al-dīn shīrāzī’s persian translation of eclid’s elements

the elements of euclid, sometimes knows as the “the book of euclid”, and in the mathematical texts of the islamic period often referred to as “the book of the elements”, is one of the main sources of islamic mathematics. this paper addresses the history of the translation of this book and its recension by naṣīr al-dīn ṭūsī. then, through a comparison of the first chapter of the fourth part of q...

RAZI AND HIS BOOK ON AL-TIN AL NISHABURI