Everything about Qutb Al-din Al-shirazi totally explained
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (
1236 –
1311) was a 13th century
Persian Muslim astronomer,
mathematician,
physician,
physicist and scientist and from
Shiraz,
Iran.
Works
He and his master
Nasir al-Din Tusi wrote critiques of the
Almagest of
Ptolemy. He also continued the optical studies of
Alhazen. It was Qutb al-Din who first gave a correct explanation for the formation of the
rainbow, which was elaborated on by his student
Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī.
He produced two prominent works on astronomy -
The Limit of Accomplishment concerning Knowledge of the Heavens (Nihayat al-idrak fi dirayat al-aflak) completed in 1281, and
The Royal Present (Al-Tuhfat al-Shahiya) completed in 1284. Both presented his models for planetary motion, improving on
Ptolemy's principles. In his
The Limit of Accomplishment concerning Knowledge of the Heavens, he also discussed the possibility of
heliocentrism.
Besides astronomy he wrote extensively on medicine, mathematics and "traditional" Islamic sciences.
Qutb al-Din was also a
Sufi from a family of Sufis in Shiraz. He is famous for the commentary on
Hikmat al-ishraq of
Suhrawardi, the most influential work of Islamic Illuminist philosophy. Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's most famous work is the
Pearly Crown (
Durrat al-taj li-ghurratt al-Dubaj), written in Persian around AD 1306 (705 AH).
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