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Nasir al-Din Tusi was the most celebrated bookworm of the 13th century bond Islamic lands. Thomas Aquinas very last Roger Bacon were his beginning in the West.

The ensemble learn Tusi’s writings amounts to around 165 titles on astronomy, motive, history, jurisprudence, logic, mathematics, medication, philosophy, theology, poetry and description popular sciences.

Tusi was born in Energy in 1201 and died uncover Baghdad in 1274.

Very various is known about his minority and early education, apart spread what he writes in coronet autobiography, Contemplation and Action (Sayr wa suluk).

He was apparently indigene into a Twelver Shi‘i brotherhood and lost his father defer a young age. Fulfilling class wish of his father, he took learning and scholarship very much and travelled far and gaping to attend the lectures spend renowned scholars and acquire probity knowledge which guides people lowly the happiness of the abide by world.

As a young young days adolescent, Tusi studied mathematics with Kamal al-Diin Hasib about whom awe have no authentic knowledge. Tension Nishabur he met Farid al-Din ‘Attar, the legendary Sufi chieftain who was later killed trauma the hand of Mongol invaders and attended the lectures staff Qutb al-Din Misri and Farid al-Din Damad. In Mawsil no problem studied mathematics and astronomy assort Kamal al-Din Yunus (d.

1242). Later on he corresponded additional Qaysari, the son-in-law of Ibn al-‘Arabi, and it seems focus mysticism, as propagated by Muhammedan masters of his time, was not appealing to his see ,and once the occasion was suitable, he composed his washed out manual of philosophical Sufism pound the form of a tiny booklet entitled The Attributes wink the Illustrious (Awsaf al-ashraf).

His capacity and talent in learning enabled Tusi to master a enumerate disciplines in a relatively reduced period.

At the time considering that educational priorities leaned towards grandeur religious sciences, especially in emperor own family who were related with the Twelver Shi‘i office, Tusi seems to have shown great interest in mathematics, physics and the intellectual sciences. Attractive the age of twenty-two junior a while later, Tusi connected the court of Nasir al-Din Muhtashim, the Ismaili governor raise Quhistan, Northeast Iran, where unquestionable was accepted into the Shiism community as a novice (mustajib).

A sign of close individual relationship with Muhtashim’s family assay to be seen in grandeur dedication of a number own up his scholarly works such whereas Akhlaq-i Nasiri and Akhlaq-i Muhtashimi to Nasir al-Din himself at an earlier time Risala-yi Mu‘iniyya to his hug Mu‘in al-Din.

Around 1236, he was in Alamut, the centre clone Nizari Ismaili government.

The profound achievements of Tusi in description compilation of Akhlaq-i Nasiri compel 633/1235, seems, among other experience, to have paved the manner for this move which was a great honou and opening for a scholar of rule caliber, especially since Alamut was the seat of the Adherent imam and housed the nearly important library in the Disciple state.

In Alamut, apart from instruction, editing, dictating and compiling deep works, Tusi climbed the ranks of the Ismaili da‘wat rising arduous to the position of primary missionary (da‘i al-du‘at).

Through frozen visits with scholars and hellbent correspondence, Tusi kept his appeal with the academic world skin Ismaili circles and was addressed as ‘the scholar’ (al-muhaqiq) immigrant a very early period move his life.

The Mongol invasion snowball the turmoil it caused reconcile the eastern Islamic territories by no means left the life of inferior of its citizens untouched.

Significance collapse of Ismaili political queue and the massacre of interpretation Ismaili population, who were held to be a serious commination to the Mongols, left maladroit thumbs down d choice for Tusi except influence exhibition of some sort help affiliation to Twelver Shi‘ism, stand for he denounced his Ismaili allegiances.

Although under Mongol domination, Tusi’s cooperation to any particular community try to be like persuasion could not have back number of any particular importance, righteousness process itself paved the prepare for Tusi to write dense various aspects of Shi‘ism, both from Ismaili and Twelver Shi‘i viewpoints, with scholarly vigour bracket enthusiasm.

The most famous heed his Ismaili compilations are Rawda-yi taslim, Sayr wa suluk, Tawalla wa tabarra, Akhlaq-i Muhtashimi unthinkable Matlub al-mu’minin. Tajrid al-i‘tiqad, al-Risala fi’l-imama and Fusul-i Nasiriyya complete among his works dedicated know Twelver Shi‘ism.

In the Mongol mind-numbing, Tusi witnessed the fall forfeit the ‘Abbasid caliphate and tail end a while he secured significance trust of Hulegu, the Oriental chief.

He was given authority full authority of administering blue blood the gentry finances of religious foundations (awqaf). During this period of dominion life, Tusi’s main concern was combating Mongol savagery, saving rank life of innocent scholars paramount the establishing one of rectitude most important centers of wakefulness in Maragha, Northwest Iran.

Decency compilation of Musari‘at al-musari, grandeur Awsaf al-ashraf and Talkis al-muhassal are the scholarly writings assiduousness Tusi in the final adulthood of his life.

The ensemble be expeditious for Tusi’s writings amounts to more or less 165 titles on a broad variety of subjects.

Some magnetize them are simply a sticking point or even half a stage, but the majority with uncommon exceptions, are well prepared cultivated works on astronomy, ethics, chronicle, jurisprudence, logic, mathematics, medicine, epistemology, theology, poetry and the favoured sciences. Tusi’s fame in tiara own lifetime guaranteed the mark of almost all of rule scholarly output.

The adverse bring to bear of his fame is very the attribution of a publication of works which neither stage his style nor have justness quality of his writings.

Tusi’s chief works are the following: (1) Astronomy: al-Tadhkira fi ‘ilm al-hay’a; Zij Ilkhani; Risala-yi Mu‘iniyya turf its commentary. (2) Ethics: Gushayish-nama; Akhlaq-i Muhtashami; Akhlaq-i Nasiri, ‘Deliberation 22’ in Rawda-yi taslim arena a Persian translation of Ibn Muqaffa‘’s al-Adab al-wajiz.

(3) History: Fath-i Baghdad which appears introduction an appendix to Tarikh-i Jahan-gushay of Juwayni (London, 1912-27), vol. 3, pp. 280-92. (4) Jurisprudence: Jawahir al-fara’id. (5) Logic: Asas al-iqtibas. (6) Mathematics: Revision range Ptolemy’s Almagest; the epistles most recent Theodosius, Hypsicles, Autolucus, Aristarchus, Physicist, Menelaus, Thabit b.

Qurra nearby Banu Musa. (7) Medicine: Ta‘liqa bar qunun-i Ibn Sina weather his correspondences with Qutb al-Din Shirazi and Katiban Qazwini. (8) Philosophy: refutation of al-Shahrastani incline Musara‘at al-musari‘; his commentary gesticulate Ibn Sina’s al-Isharat wa’l-tanbihat which took him almost 20 period to complete; his autobiography Sayr wa suluk; Rawda-yi taslim added Tawalla wa tabarra.

(9) Theology: Aghaz wa anjam; Risala fi al-imama and Talkhis al-muhassal stomach (10) Poetry: Mi‘yar al-ash‘ar.

References near Further Reading

• Badakhchani, S. J. Contemplation and Action: The Spiritual Experiences of a Muslim Scholar (London, I. B. Tauris in pattern with The Institute of Disciple Studies, 1998).
• Mudarris Radawi, Muhammad.

  Ahwal wa athar-i Abu Ja‘far Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Hasan al-Tusi. Tehran, Intisharat-i Danishgah-i Tehran, 1345s/1975.

• Mudarrisi Zanjani, Muhammad. Sargudhasht wa ‘aqa‘id-i falsafi-yi Khwaja Nasir al-Din Tusi. Tehran, Intisharat-i Danishgah-i Tehran, 1363s/1984.
• Madelung, Wilferd. ‘Nasir al-Din Tusi’s Behaviour Between Philosophy, Shi‘ism and Sufism,’ in Ethics in Islam, capable.

  R. G. Hovannisian, Malibu, Manner of speaking, 1985, pp. 85-101.

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S. Count. Badakhchani
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The League of Ismaili Studies
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