Athir al-Din al-Abhari
Al-Abhārī | |
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| Died | 1262–1265 |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Yūnus, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Kūshyār ibn Labbān, Jābir ibn Aflaḥ |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| School or tradition | Sunni Ashari |
| Main interests | Astronomy, Mathematics, Philosophy, Islam |
| Influenced | Ibn Khallikān, al-Kātibī, Shams al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī, al-Samarqandī, al-Qazwīnī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.[1] |
Athīr al-Dīn al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Mufaḍḍal al-Samarqandī al-Abharī, also known as Athīr al-Dīn al-Munajjim (d. in 1265 or 1262[2] Shabestar, Iran)[1] was an Iranian muslim polymath, philosopher, astronomer, astrologer and mathematician. Other than his influential writings, he had many famous disciples.
Life
[edit]His birthplace is contested among sources. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam[3] and the Encyclopaedia Islamica,[4] he was born in Abhar, a small town between Qazvin and Zanjan. Encyclopædia Iranica mentions that he was born in Mosul,[1][5] but according to Encyclopaedia Islamica, none of his oldest biographers mentioned Mosul as his birthplace.[4] Beside the city of Abhar, the epithet al-Abharī could suggest that he or his ancestors originally stem from the Abhar tribe.[1] He may have died of paralysis in Adharbayjan.[1]
He is said to have been a student or teacher in various schools in Greater Khorasan, and in Baghdad and Erbil, living for some time in Sivas.[1] Ibn Khallikān reports that he was a student of Kamal al-Din ibn Yunus, but other sources state that he worked as an assistant to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
Works
[edit]- Astronomy
- Risāla fī al-hayʾa (Treatise on astronomy).
- Mukhtaṣar fī al-hayʾa (Epitome on astronomy).
- Kashf al-ḥaqāʾiq fī taḥrīr al-daqāʾiq, where he accepts the view that the celestial bodies do not change and maintains that stars have volition and it is the source of their motion.[1]
- Mathematics
- Several works on Iṣlāḥ (Correction) of Euclid, one of which is an attempt to prove the parallel postulate, which was commented upon and criticized by Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī.[1]
- Philosophy
- Hidayah al-Hikmah (Guide on Philosophy): a book dealing with the complete cycle of Hikmat, i.e., logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics.
- Isāghūjī fi al-Manṭiq (Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge), a treatise on logic. Latin Translation by Thomas Obicini; Īsāghūkhī, Isagoge. Id est, breve Introductorium Arabicum in Scientiam Logices: cum versione latina: ac theses Sanctae Fidei. R. P. F. Thomae Novariensis (1625).
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h Sarıoğlu 2007.
- ^ according to Barhebraeus
- ^ Heidrun, Eichner (December 2008). "Al-Abharī, Athīr al-Dīn". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Brill. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ a b "Athir al-Din al-Abhari". Encyclopedia Islamica. CGIE. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica".
References
[edit]- Sarıoğlu, Hüseyin (2007). "Abharī: Athīr al-Dīn al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Mufaḍḍal al-Samarqandī al-Abharī". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)
- Masjid Darus Salam. "al- Abharī, At̲h̲īr al-Dīn Mufaḍḍal b. ʿUmar." A Brief Biographical Sketch of Imām Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī By Mohammad Mustafa Ali (4th Year Alim Student, DarusSalam Seminary).
Further reading
[edit]- Calverley, Edwin E. (1933). "Al-Abharī's "Isāghūjī fi l-Manṭiq"". Macdonald.
External links
[edit]- Isagoge of al-Ahbārī with Latin translation and a theological treatise by Thomas Obicini (Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France).
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