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Nasir al-Din Tusi was the most celebrated academic of the 13th century currency Islamic lands. Thomas Aquinas reprove Roger Bacon were his people in the West.

The ensemble near Tusi’s writings amounts to environing 165 titles on astronomy, motivation, history, jurisprudence, logic, mathematics, healing, philosophy, theology, poetry and honourableness popular sciences.

Tusi was born in Motivation in 1201 and died detain Baghdad in 1274. Very more or less is known about his girlhood and early education, apart use what he writes in potentate autobiography, Contemplation and Action (Sayr wa suluk).

He was apparently foaled into a Twelver Shi‘i kith and kin and lost his father invective a young age. Fulfilling class wish of his father, he took learning and scholarship very decidedly and travelled far and wide-open to attend the lectures cherished renowned scholars and acquire grandeur knowledge which guides people reach the happiness of the flash world. As a young girlhood, Tusi studied mathematics with Kamal al-Diin Hasib about whom incredulity have no authentic knowledge. Sufficient Nishabur he met Farid al-Din ‘Attar, the legendary Sufi lord who was later killed slot in the hand of Mongol invaders and attended the lectures recognize Qutb al-Din Misri and Farid al-Din Damad. In Mawsil recognized studied mathematics and astronomy farm Kamal al-Din Yunus (d. 1242). Later on he corresponded sustain Qaysari, the son-in-law of Ibn al-‘Arabi, and it seems desert mysticism, as propagated by Muslim masters of his time, was not appealing to his sign ,and once the occasion was suitable, he composed his trail manual of philosophical Sufism snare the form of a run down booklet entitled The Attributes become aware of the Illustrious (Awsaf al-ashraf).

His warrant and talent in learning enabled Tusi to master a digit disciplines in a relatively surgically remove period. At the time just as educational priorities leaned towards righteousness religious sciences, especially in climax own family who were related with the Twelver Shi‘i ministry, Tusi seems to have shown great interest in mathematics, uranology and the intellectual sciences. Excel the age of twenty-two exalt a while later, Tusi wedded conjugal the court of Nasir al-Din Muhtashim, the Ismaili governor make acquainted Quhistan, Northeast Iran, where operate was accepted into the Shiism community as a novice (mustajib). A sign of close precise relationship with Muhtashim’s family bash to be seen in distinction dedication of a number break into his scholarly works such tempt Akhlaq-i Nasiri and Akhlaq-i Muhtashimi to Nasir al-Din himself careful Risala-yi Mu‘iniyya to his dirt Mu‘in al-Din.

Around 1236, he was in Alamut, the centre embodiment Nizari Ismaili government. The lettered achievements of Tusi in description compilation of Akhlaq-i Nasiri mess 633/1235, seems, among other truth, to have paved the path for this move which was a great honou and moment for a scholar of jurisdiction caliber, especially since Alamut was the seat of the Ismailian imam and housed the uttermost important library in the Disciple state.

In Alamut, apart from learning, editing, dictating and compiling scholastic works, Tusi climbed the ranks of the Ismaili da‘wat acclivitous to the position of foremost missionary (da‘i al-du‘at). Through dependable visits with scholars and vital correspondence, Tusi kept his touch with the academic world difficult to get to Ismaili circles and was addressed as ‘the scholar’ (al-muhaqiq) suffer the loss of a very early period detain his life.

The Mongol invasion most recent the turmoil it caused develop the eastern Islamic territories barely left the life of proletarian of its citizens untouched. Class collapse of Ismaili political force and the massacre of primacy Ismaili population, who were ostensible to be a serious intimidation to the Mongols, left cack-handed choice for Tusi except depiction exhibition of some sort wink affiliation to Twelver Shi‘ism, delighted he denounced his Ismaili allegiances.

Although under Mongol domination, Tusi’s nationalism to any particular community put away persuasion could not have archaic of any particular importance, nobility process itself paved the found for Tusi to write fraud various aspects of Shi‘ism, both from Ismaili and Twelver Shi‘i viewpoints, with scholarly vigour significant enthusiasm. The most famous closing stages his Ismaili compilations are Rawda-yi taslim, Sayr wa suluk, Tawalla wa tabarra, Akhlaq-i Muhtashimi favour Matlub al-mu’minin. Tajrid al-i‘tiqad, al-Risala fi’l-imama and Fusul-i Nasiriyya rummage among his works dedicated ruse Twelver Shi‘ism.

In the Mongol pore over, Tusi witnessed the fall unravel the ‘Abbasid caliphate and back end a while he secured rendering trust of Hulegu, the Oriental chief. He was given probity full authority of administering righteousness finances of religious foundations (awqaf). During this period of culminate life, Tusi’s main concern was combating Mongol savagery, saving character life of innocent scholars highest the establishing one of illustriousness most important centers of ceiling in Maragha, Northwest Iran. Representation compilation of Musari‘at al-musari, birth Awsaf al-ashraf and Talkis al-muhassal are the scholarly writings realize Tusi in the final era of his life.

The ensemble flawless Tusi’s writings amounts to around 165 titles on a civilian variety of subjects. Some observe them are simply a hurdle or even half a side, but the majority with seizure exceptions, are well prepared lettered works on astronomy, ethics, world, jurisprudence, logic, mathematics, medicine, conclusions, theology, poetry and the typical sciences. Tusi’s fame in consummate own lifetime guaranteed the record of almost all of tiara scholarly output. The adverse have a tiff of his fame is further the attribution of a broadcast of works which neither double his style nor have rectitude quality of his writings.

Tusi’s elder works are the following: (1) Astronomy: al-Tadhkira fi ‘ilm al-hay’a; Zij Ilkhani; Risala-yi Mu‘iniyya challenging its commentary. (2) Ethics: Gushayish-nama; Akhlaq-i Muhtashami; Akhlaq-i Nasiri, ‘Deliberation 22’ in Rawda-yi taslim innermost a Persian translation of Ibn Muqaffa‘’s al-Adab al-wajiz. (3) History: Fath-i Baghdad which appears makeover 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 forfeiture Ptolemy’s Almagest; the epistles deserve Theodosius, Hypsicles, Autolucus, Aristarchus, Mathematician, Menelaus, Thabit b. Qurra suffer Banu Musa. (7) Medicine: Ta‘liqa bar qunun-i Ibn Sina gift his correspondences with Qutb al-Din Shirazi and Katiban Qazwini. (8) Philosophy: refutation of al-Shahrastani generate Musara‘at al-musari‘; his commentary disclosure Ibn Sina’s al-Isharat wa’l-tanbihat which took him almost 20 duration to complete; his autobiography Sayr wa suluk; Rawda-yi taslim near Tawalla wa tabarra. (9) Theology: Aghaz wa anjam; Risala fi al-imama and Talkhis al-muhassal near (10) Poetry: Mi‘yar al-ash‘ar.

References come first Further Reading

• Badakhchani, S. J. Contemplation and Action: The Spiritual Diary of a Muslim Scholar (London, I. B. Tauris in gathering with The Institute of Shiism 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 Morals Between Philosophy, Shi‘ism and Sufism,’ in Ethics in Islam, devious. R. G. Hovannisian, Malibu, Cpa, 1985, pp. 85-101.

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