| This is a Wikipedia user page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user in whose space this page is located may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HistoryofIran/Qutb_al-Din_Shirazi. |
Qutb al-Din Shirazi | |
|---|---|
 Photo taken from a manuscript by Qutb al-Din Shirazi. The image depicts an epicyclic planetary model | |
| Born | October 1236 |
| Died | 7 February 1311 |
Qutb al-Din Shirazi (Persian: قطبالدین شیرازی; 1236 – 1311) was a Persian polymath, Sufi, and poet.
Biography edit
Qutb al-Din was born on October 1236 in the city of Shiraz,[1] which at the time served as the capital of the Salghurid atabegate.[2] He belonged to the Kazaruni family, which was distinguished for its physicians.[3] His father Zia al-Din Mas'ud Kazaruni, was a renowned physician and Sufi who worked at the Muzaffari hospital in Shiraz. Under his guidance, Qutb al-Din studied medicine. He also studied the Qanun (the Canon) by the scholar Avicenna (died 1037), as well as its commentaries, especially the one by Fakhr al-Din Razi (died 1210), which he considered to have many errors. Following Zia al-Din's death, Qutb al-Din, at the age of fourteen, succeeded him as an ophthalmologist at the Muzaffari hospital. He also continued his studies in medicine, this time under Kamal al-Din Abu'l-Khayr, and then later under Sharaf al-Din Zaki Bushkani and Shams al-Din Muhammad Kishi, both well-versed in the Qanun.[1]
Qutb al-Din later went to Tabriz, where he stayed during his final years. He died on 7 February 1311 and was buried in the Charandab Cemetery of the city, near the tomb of Qadi Baydawi (died 1319).[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Anwar 2005.
- ^ Spuler 1987, pp. 894–896.
- ^ Kamola 2019, p. 70.
Sources edit
- Anwar, Sayyed 'Abd-Allah (2005). "Qoṭb-al-Din Širāzi". Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition. New York.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Kamola, Stefan (2019). Making Mongol History Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1474421423.
- Spuler, B. (1987). "Atābakān-e Fārs". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume II/8: Aśoka IV–Āṯār al-Wozarāʾ. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 894–896. ISBN 978-0-71009-108-6.
- Wiedemann, E. (1986). "Ḳuṭb al-Dīn S̲h̲īrāzī". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume V: Khe–Mahi. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 547–548. ISBN 978-90-04-07819-2.