Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414) (Persian علی بن محمد جرجانی) was a Persian[4] encyclopedic writer, scientist, and traditionalist theologian. He is referred to as "al-Sayyid al-Sharif" in sources due to his alleged descent from Ali ibn Abi Taleb.[1] He was born in the village of Ṭāḡu near Astarabad in Gorgan (hence the nisba "Jurjani"),[1] and became a professor in Shiraz. When this city was plundered by Timur in 1387, he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death.[5]
Al-Sharif al-Jurjani | |
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 Manuscript of Jurjani's Sharh Tadkira (a commentary on Nasir al-Din Tusi's Kitab al-tadhkira, on astronomy). Copy created in Timurid Iran, dated 1410. This particular copy is the oldest extant version of the work and was created during Jurjani's lifetime | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1339 CE |
| Died | 1414 CE |
| Era | early Timurid period[1] |
| Region | Shiraz |
| Main interest(s) | Kalam((arabic grammar)) (Islamic theology), Mantiq (logic), Falkiat |
| Notable work(s) | Jurjani Definitions, Sharh al-Mawaqif |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
| Muslim leader | |
Influenced | |
The author of more than fifty books,[6] of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the Taʿrīfāt (تعريفات "Definitions"),[7] which was edited by G Flügel (Leipzig, 1845), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, etc.), and St Petersburg (1897).[5]
See also
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edit- ^ a b c d van Ess, Josef (2009). "JORJĀNI, ZAYN-AL-DIN ABU'L-ḤASAN ʿALI". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 1. pp. 21–29.
- ^ Gündüz, Şinasi, and Cafer S. Yaran, eds. Change and Essence: dialectical relations between change and continuity in the Turkish intellectual tradition. Vol. 18. CRVP, 2005.
- ^ Ragep, F. Jamil, and Alī al-Qūshjī. "Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy: An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science." Osiris 16 (2001): 49-71.
- ^ Donzel, E. J. van (1 January 1994). Islamic Desk Reference. BRILL. p. 192. ISBN 90-04-09738-4.
al-Jurjani, Ali* b. Muhammad (al-Sayyid al-Sharif): Persian grammarian, philosopher and linguist; 1339-1413.
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Jurjānī s.v. ʽAlī ibn Maḥommed ul-Jurjānī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 587.
- ^ Kifayat Ullah, Al-Kashshaf: Al-Zamakhshari's Mu'tazilite Exegesis of the Qur'an, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG (2017), p. 40
- ^ Kitâb Ta`rîfat al-`ulûm wa tahqîqât r-rusûm, Edition critique: Abdelmoula HAGIL, Paris, 2019, 536p.
External links
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- Dhanani, Alnoor (2007). "Jurjānī: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (al-Sayyid al–Sharīf)". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 603–4. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)
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