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Muslim Iranian scholar
Ghotb2.jpg
Photo taken from medieval manuscript by Qotbeddin Shirazi. The image
depicts an epicyclic planetary model.
Name: Qotb al-Din Shirazi
Title:
Birth: 1236AD
Death: 1311AD
Maddhab: Sufi
Main interests: Mathematics, Astronomy, medicine, science and
philosophy
Works: Almagest, The Royal Present ,Pearly Crown, etc
Influences: Nasir al-Din Tusi, Ibn al-Haytham, Suhrawardi
Influenced: Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī

Qotb al-Din Shirazi (1236 – 1311) (Persian: قطب‌الدین شیرازی) was a
13th century Persian Muslim polymath[1] and Persian poet who made
contributions astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory,
philosophy and Sufism.
Contents
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* 1 Biography
* 2 Works
o 2.1 Mathematical
o 2.2 Astronomy and Geography
o 2.3 Philosophical
o 2.4 Medicine
o 2.5 Religion, Sufism, Theology, Law, Linguistics and
Rhetoric and others
* 3 See also
* 4 References

[edit] Biography

He was born in Shiraz in October 1236 to a family with a tradition of
Sufism. His father, Zia' al-Din Mas'ud Kazeruni was a physician by
profession and also a leading Sufi of the Kazeruni order. Zia' Al-Din
received his Kherqa (Sufi robe) from Shahab al-Din Omar Suhrawardi.
Qotb al-Din was garbed by the Kherqa (Sufi robe) as blessing by his
father at age of ten. Later on, he also received his own robe from the
hands of Najib al-Din Bozgush Shirazni, a famous Sufi of the time.
Qoṭb al-Din began studying medicine under his father. His father
practiced and taught medicine at the Mozaffari hospital in Shiraz.
After the passing away of his father (when Qotb al-Din was 14), his
uncle and other masters of the period trained him in medicine. He also
studied the Qanun (the Canon) of the famous Persian scholar Avicenna
and its commentaries. In particular he read the commentary of Fakhr al-
Din Razi on the Canon of Medicine and Qotb al-Din raised many issues
of his own. This led to his own decision to write his own commentary,
where he resolved many of the issues in the company of Nasir al-Din al-
Tusi.

Qotb al-Din lost his father at the age of fourteen and replaced him as
the ophthalmologist at the Mozaffari hospital in Shiraz. At the same
time, he pursued his education under his uncle Kamal al-Din Abu'l
Khayr and then Sharaf al-Din Zaki Bushkani, and Shams al-Din Mohammad
Kishi. All three were expert teachers of the Canon of Avicenna. He
quit his medical profession ten years later and began to devote his
time to further education under the guidance of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.
When Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, the renowned scholar-vizier of the Mongol
Holagu Khan established the observatory of Maragha, Qotb al-Din
Shirazi became attracted to the city. He left Shiraz sometime after
1260 and was in Maragha about 1262. In Maragha, Qotb al-din resumed
his education under Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, with whom he studied the al-
Esharat wa'l-Tanbihat of Avicenna. He discussed the difficulties he
had with Nasir al-Din al-Tusi on understanding the first book of the
Canon of Avicenna. While working in the new observatory, studied
astronomy under him. One of the important scientific projects was the
completion of the new astronomical table (zij). In his testament
(Wasiya), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi advises his son ṣil-a-Din to work with
Qotb al-Din in the completion of the Zij.

Qotb-al-Din's stay in Maragha was short. Subsequently, he traveled to
Khorasan in the company of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi where he stayed to
study under Najm al-Din Katebi Qazvini in the town of Jovayn and
become his assistant. Some time after 1268, he journeyed to Qazvin,
Isfahan, Baghdad and later Konya in Anatolia. This was a time when the
Persian poet Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi (Rumi) was gaining fame
there and it is reported that Qotb al-Din also met him. In Konya, he
studied the Jam'e al-Osul of Ibn Al-Athir with Sadr al-Din Qunawi. The
governor of Konya, Mo'in al-Din Parvana appointed him as the judge of
Sivas and Malatya. It was during this time that he compiled the books
the Meftāḥ al-meftāh, Ekhtiārāt al-moẓaffariya, and his commentary on
Sakkāki. In the year 1282, he was envoy on behalf of the Ilkhanid
Ahmad Takudar to Sayf al-Din Qalawun, the Mamluk ruler of Egypt. In
his letter to Qalawun, the Ilkhanid ruler mentions Qotb al-Din as the
chief judge. Qotb al-Din during this time collected various critiques
and commentaries on Avicenna's Canon and used them on his commentary
on the Kolliyāt. The last part of Qotb al-Din's active career was
teaching the Canon of Avicenna and the Shefa of Avicenna in Syria. He
soon left for Tabriz after that and died shortly after. He was buried
in the Čarandāb cemetery of the city.

Qotb al-Din had an insatiable desire[1] for learning, which is
evidenced by the twenty-four years he spent studying with masters of
the time in order to write his commentary on the the Kolliyāt. He was
also distinguished by his extensive breadth of knowledge, a clever
sense of humor and indiscriminate generosity[1]. He was also a master
chess player and played the musical instrument known as the Rabab, a
favorite instrument of the Persian poet Rumi.
[edit] Works
[edit] Mathematical

* Tarjoma-ye Taḥrir-e Oqlides a work on geometry in Persian in
fifteen chapters containing mainly the translation of the work Nasir
al-Din Tusi, completed in November 1282 and dedicated to Moʿin-al-Din
Solaymān Parvāna.
* Risala fi Harkat al-Daraja" a work on Mathematics

[edit] Astronomy and Geography
a manuscript copy of Shirazi's al-Tuhfa al-Shahiya, 15th century

* Eḵtiārāt-e moẓaffari It is a treatise on astronomy in Persian in
four chapters and extracted from his other work Nehāyat al-edrāk. The
work was dedicated to Mozaffar-al-Din Bulaq Arsalan.
* Fi ḥarakāt al-dahraja wa’l-nesba bayn al-mostawi wa’l-monḥani a
written as an appendix to Nehāyat al-edrāk
* Nehāyat al-edrāk - The Limit of Accomplishment concerning
Knowledge of the Heavens (Nehāyat al-edrāk 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. [2] In his The Limit of
Accomplishment concerning Knowledge of the Heavens, he also discussed
the possibility of heliocentrism.[3]
* Ketāb faʿalta wa lā talom fi’l-hayʾa, an Arabic work on
astronomy, written for Aṣil-al-Din, son of Nasir al-Din Tusi
* Šarḥ Taḏkera naṣiriya on astronomy.
* Al-Tuḥfa al-šāhiya fi’l-hayʾa, an Arabic book on astronomy,
having four chapters, written for Moḥammad b. Ṣadr-al-Saʿid, known as
Tāj-al-Eslām Amiršāh
* *Ḥall moškelāt al-Majesṭi a book on astronomy, titled Ḥall
moškelāt al-Majesṭi

[edit] Philosophical

* Dorrat al-tāj fi ḡorrat al-dabbāj Qotb 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). It is an Encyclopedic work
on philosophy written for Rostam Dabbaj, the ruler of the Iranian land
of Gilan. It includes philosophical outlook on natural sciences,
theology, logic, public affairs, ethnics, mystiicsm, astronomy,
mathematics, arithmetics and music.
* Šarḥ Ḥekmat al-ešrāq Šayḵ Šehāb-al-Din Sohravardi, on philosophy
and mysticism of Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi and his philosophy of
illumination in Arabic.

[edit] Medicine

* Al-Toḥfa al-saʿdiya also called Nozhat al-ḥokamāʾ wa rawżat al-
aṭebbāʾ, on medicine, a comprehensive commentary in five volumes on
the Kolliyāt of the Canon of Avicenna written in Arabic.
* Resāla fi’l-baraṣ, a medical treatise on leprosy in Arabic
* Resāla fi bayān al-ḥājat ela’l-ṭebb wa ādāb al-aṭebbāʾ wa waṣāyā-
hom

[edit] Religion, Sufism, Theology, Law, Linguistics and Rhetoric and
others

* Al-Enteṣāf a gloss in Arabic on Zamakhshari's Qurʾan commentary,
al-Kaššāf.
* Fatḥ al-mannān fi tafsir al-Qorʾān a comprehensive commentary on
the Qurʾan in forty volumes, written in Arabic and also known by the
title Tafsir ʿallāmi
* Ḥāšia bar Ḥekmat al-ʿayn on theology; it is a commentary of
Ḥekmat al-ʿayn of Najm-al-Din ʿAli Dabirān Kātebi
* Moškelāt al-eʿrāb on Arabic syntax
* Moškelāt al-tafāsir or Moškelāt al-Qorʾān, on rhetoric
* Meftāḥ al-meftāhá, a commentary on the third section of the
Meftāḥ al-ʿolum, a book on Arabic grammar and rhetoric by Abu Yaʿqub
Seraj-al-Din Yusof Skkaki Khwarizmi
* Šarḥ Moḵtaṣar al-oṣul Ebn Ḥājeb, a commentary on Ebn Ḥājeb’s
Montaha’l-soʾāl wa’l-ʿamal fi ʿelmay al-oṣul wa’l-jadwal, a book on
the sources of law according to the Malikite school of thought
* Sazāvār-e Efteḵā, Moḥammad-ʿAli Modarres attributes a book by
this title to Qoṭb-al-Din, without providing any information about its
content
* Tāj al-ʿolum A book attributed to him by Zerekli
* al-Tabṣera A book attributed to him by Zerekli
* A book on ethnics and poetry, Qoṭb-al-Din is also credited with
the authorship of a book on ethics in Persian, written for Malek ʿEzz-
al-Din, the ruler of Shiraz. He also wrote poetry but apparantely did
not leave a divan (a book of poems)

Qotb 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.
[edit] See also

* List of Iranian scientists
* List of Persian poets and authors
* Persian literature

[edit] References

1. ^ a b c Encyclopedia Iranica, "QOṬB-AL-DIN ŠIRĀZI, Maḥmud b.
Żiāʾ-al-Din Masʿud b. Moṣleḥ", Sayyed ʿAbd-Allāh Anwār [1]
2. ^ Kennedy, E. S. - Late Medieval Planetary Theory, Isis, Vol.
57, No. 3. (Autumn, 1966), pp. 365-378., The University of Chicago
Press
3. ^ A. Baker and L. Chapter (2002), "Part 4: The Sciences". In M.
M. Sharif, "A History of Muslim Philosophy", Philosophia Islamica.

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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Almagest" title="Almagest">Almagest</a></i>,
<i>The Royal Present</i> ,<i>Pearly Crown</i>, etc</td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_Tusi" title="Nasir al-Din Tusi"
class="mw-redirect">Nasir al-Din Tusi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-
Haytham" title="Ibn al-Haytham" class="mw-redirect">Ibn al-Haytham</
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<td><a href="/wiki/Kam%C4%81l_al-D%C4%ABn_al-F%C4%81ris%C4%AB"
title="Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī">Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī</a></td>
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<p><b>Qotb al-Din Shirazi</b> (1236 – 1311) (<a href="/wiki/
Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span
lang="fa" xml:lang="fa">قطب‌الدین شیرازی</span>) was a 13th century <a
href="/wiki/Persian_people" title="Persian people">Persian</a> <a
href="/wiki/Muslim" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> polymath<sup
id="cite_ref-Iranica_0-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-
Iranica-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> and Persian <a
href="/wiki/Persian_literature" title="Persian literature">poet</a>
who made contributions <a href="/wiki/Islamic_astronomy"
title="Islamic astronomy" class="mw-redirect">astronomy</a>, <a href="/
wiki/Islamic_Mathematics" title="Islamic Mathematics" class="mw-
redirect">mathematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islamic_medicine"
title="Islamic medicine" class="mw-redirect">medicine</a>, <a href="/
wiki/Islamic_science" title="Islamic science" class="mw-
redirect">physics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Music_theory" title="Music
theory">music theory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philosophy"
title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sufism"
title="Sufism">Sufism</a>.</p>

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<p>He was born in <a href="/wiki/Shiraz" title="Shiraz">Shiraz</a> in
October 1236 to a family with a tradition of <a href="/wiki/Sufism"
title="Sufism">Sufism</a>. His father, Zia' al-Din Mas'ud Kazeruni was
a physician by profession and also a leading <a href="/wiki/Sufi"
title="Sufi" class="mw-redirect">Sufi</a> of the Kazeruni order. Zia'
Al-Din received his Kherqa (Sufi robe) from Shahab al-Din Omar
Suhrawardi. Qotb al-Din was garbed by the Kherqa (Sufi robe) as
blessing by his father at age of ten. Later on, he also received his
own robe from the hands of Najib al-Din Bozgush Shirazni, a famous <a
href="/wiki/Sufi" title="Sufi" class="mw-redirect">Sufi</a> of the
time. Qoṭb al-Din began studying medicine under his father. His father
practiced and taught medicine at the Mozaffari hospital in Shiraz.
After the passing away of his father (when Qotb al-Din was 14), his
uncle and other masters of the period trained him in medicine. He also
studied the Qanun (the <a href="/wiki/The_Canon_of_Medicine"
title="The Canon of Medicine">Canon</a>) of the famous Persian scholar
<a href="/wiki/Avicenna" title="Avicenna">Avicenna</a> and its
commentaries. In particular he read the commentary of <a href="/wiki/
Fakhr_al-Din_Razi" title="Fakhr al-Din Razi" class="mw-redirect">Fakhr
al-Din Razi</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Canon_of_Medicine" title="Canon
of Medicine" class="mw-redirect">Canon of Medicine</a> and Qotb al-Din
raised many issues of his own. This led to his own decision to write
his own commentary, where he resolved many of the issues in the
company of <a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi" title="Nasir al-Din al-
Tusi">Nasir al-Din al-Tusi</a>.</p>

<p>Qotb al-Din lost his father at the age of fourteen and replaced him
as the ophthalmologist at the Mozaffari hospital in <a href="/wiki/
Shiraz" title="Shiraz">Shiraz</a>. At the same time, he pursued his
education under his uncle Kamal al-Din Abu'l Khayr and then Sharaf al-
Din Zaki Bushkani, and Shams al-Din Mohammad Kishi. All three were
expert teachers of the Canon of <a href="/wiki/Avicenna"
title="Avicenna">Avicenna</a>. He quit his medical profession ten
years later and began to devote his time to further education under
the guidance of <a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi" title="Nasir al-
Din al-Tusi">Nasir al-Din al-Tusi</a>. When <a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-
Din_al-Tusi" title="Nasir al-Din al-Tusi">Nasir al-Din al-Tusi</a>,
the renowned scholar-vizier of the Mongol Holagu Khan established the
observatory of <a href="/wiki/Maragha" title="Maragha" class="mw-
redirect">Maragha</a>, Qotb al-Din Shirazi became attracted to the
city. He left <a href="/wiki/Shiraz" title="Shiraz">Shiraz</a>
sometime after 1260 and was in Maragha about 1262. In <a href="/wiki/
Maragha" title="Maragha" class="mw-redirect">Maragha</a>, Qotb al-din
resumed his education under <a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi"
title="Nasir al-Din al-Tusi">Nasir al-Din al-Tusi</a>, with whom he
studied the al-Esharat wa'l-Tanbihat of <a href="/wiki/Avicenna"
title="Avicenna">Avicenna</a>. He discussed the difficulties he had
with <a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi" title="Nasir al-Din al-
Tusi">Nasir al-Din al-Tusi</a> on understanding the first book of the
Canon of Avicenna. While working in the new observatory, studied
astronomy under him. One of the important scientific projects was the
completion of the new astronomical table (<a href="/wiki/Zij"
title="Zij">zij</a>). In his testament (Wasiya), <a href="/wiki/
Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi" title="Nasir al-Din al-Tusi">Nasir al-Din al-
Tusi</a> advises his son ṣil-a-Din to work with Qotb al-Din in the
completion of the <a href="/wiki/Zij" title="Zij">Zij</a>.</p>

<p>Qotb-al-Din's stay in <a href="/wiki/Maragha" title="Maragha"
class="mw-redirect">Maragha</a> was short. Subsequently, he traveled
to <a href="/wiki/Khorasan" title="Khorasan">Khorasan</a> in the
company of <a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi" title="Nasir al-Din al-
Tusi">Nasir al-Din al-Tusi</a> where he stayed to study under Najm al-
Din Katebi Qazvini in the town of Jovayn and become his assistant.
Some time after 1268, he journeyed to <a href="/wiki/Qazvin"
title="Qazvin">Qazvin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isfahan"
title="Isfahan">Isfahan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baghdad"
title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> and later Konya in Anatolia. This was a
time when the Persian poet Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi (<a href="/
wiki/Rumi" title="Rumi">Rumi</a>) was gaining fame there and it is
reported that Qotb al-Din also met him. In Konya, he studied the Jam'e
al-Osul of Ibn Al-Athir with Sadr al-Din Qunawi. The governor of
Konya, Mo'in al-Din Parvana appointed him as the judge of <a href="/
wiki/Sivas" title="Sivas">Sivas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malatya"
title="Malatya">Malatya</a>. It was during this time that he compiled
the books the <i>Meftāḥ al-meftāh</i>, <i>Ekhtiārāt al-moẓaffariya</
i>, and his commentary on Sakkāki. In the year 1282, he was envoy on
behalf of the <a href="/wiki/Ilkhanid" title="Ilkhanid" class="mw-
redirect">Ilkhanid</a> Ahmad Takudar to Sayf al-Din Qalawun, the
Mamluk ruler of Egypt. In his letter to Qalawun, the Ilkhanid ruler
mentions Qotb al-Din as the chief judge. Qotb al-Din during this time
collected various critiques and commentaries on <a href="/wiki/
Avicenna" title="Avicenna">Avicenna</a>'s Canon and used them on his
commentary on the Kolliyāt. The last part of Qotb al-Din's active
career was teaching the Canon of Avicenna and the Shefa of Avicenna in
<a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>. He soon left for <a
href="/wiki/Tabriz" title="Tabriz">Tabriz</a> after that and died
shortly after. He was buried in the Čarandāb cemetery of the city.</p>

<p>Qotb al-Din had an insatiable desire<sup id="cite_ref-Iranica_0-1"
class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iranica-0"><span>[</
span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> for learning, which is evidenced by the
twenty-four years he spent studying with masters of the time in order
to write his commentary on the the Kolliyāt. He was also distinguished
by his extensive breadth of knowledge, a clever sense of humor and
indiscriminate generosity<sup id="cite_ref-Iranica_0-2"
class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iranica-0"><span>[</
span>1<span>]</span></a></sup>. He was also a master chess player and
played the musical instrument known as the <a href="/wiki/Rabab"
title="Rabab" class="mw-redirect">Rabab</a>, a favorite instrument of
the Persian poet <a href="/wiki/Rumi" title="Rumi">Rumi</a>.</p>
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id="Mathematical">Mathematical</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><i>Tarjoma-ye Taḥrir-e Oqlides</i> a work on <a href="/wiki/
Geometry" title="Geometry">geometry</a> in Persian in fifteen chapters
containing mainly the translation of the work <a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-
Din_Tusi" title="Nasir al-Din Tusi" class="mw-redirect">Nasir al-Din
Tusi</a>, completed in November 1282 and dedicated to Moʿin-al-Din
Solaymān Parvāna.</li>
<li><i>Risala fi Harkat al-Daraja" a work on <a href="/wiki/
Mathematics" title="Mathematics">Mathematics</a></i></li>

</ul>
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<ul>
<li><i>Eḵtiārāt-e moẓaffari</i> It is a treatise on astronomy in
Persian in four chapters and extracted from his other work Nehāyat al-
edrāk. The work was dedicated to Mozaffar-al-Din Bulaq Arsalan.</li>

<li><i>Fi ḥarakāt al-dahraja wa’l-nesba bayn al-mostawi wa’l-monḥani</
i> a written as an appendix to Nehāyat al-edrāk</li>
<li><i>Nehāyat al-edrāk</i> - <i>The Limit of Accomplishment
concerning Knowledge of the Heavens</i> (Nehāyat al-edrāk fi dirayat
al-aflak) completed in 1281, and <i>The Royal Present</i> (Al-Tuhfat
al-Shahiya) completed in 1284. Both presented his models for planetary
motion, improving on <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemy</
a>'s principles. <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a
href="#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> In his
<i>The Limit of Accomplishment concerning Knowledge of the Heavens</
i>, he also discussed the possibility of <a href="/wiki/Heliocentrism"
title="Heliocentrism">heliocentrism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2"
class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</
span></a></sup></li>

<li><i>Ketāb faʿalta wa lā talom fi’l-hayʾa</i>, an Arabic work on
astronomy, written for Aṣil-al-Din, son of <a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-
Din_Tusi" title="Nasir al-Din Tusi" class="mw-redirect">Nasir al-Din
Tusi</a></li>
<li><i>Šarḥ Taḏkera naṣiriya</i> on astronomy.</li>
<li><i>Al-Tuḥfa al-šāhiya fi’l-hayʾa</i>, an Arabic book on astronomy,
having four chapters, written for Moḥammad b. Ṣadr-al-Saʿid, known as
Tāj-al-Eslām Amiršāh</li>
<li><i>*</i>Ḥall moškelāt al-Majesṭi <i>a book on astronomy, titled
Ḥall moškelāt al-Majesṭi</i></li>
</ul>
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Din_Shirazi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section:
Philosophical">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline"
id="Philosophical">Philosophical</span></h3>

<ul>
<li><i>Dorrat al-tāj fi ḡorrat al-dabbāj</i> Qotb al-Din al-Shirazi's
most famous work is the <b>Pearly Crown</b> (<i>Durrat al-taj li-
ghurratt al-Dubaj</i>), written in Persian around AD 1306 (705 AH). It
is an Encyclopedic work on philosophy written for Rostam Dabbaj, the
ruler of the Iranian land of <a href="/wiki/Gilan" title="Gilan"
class="mw-redirect">Gilan</a>. It includes philosophical outlook on
natural sciences, theology, logic, public affairs, ethnics, mystiicsm,
astronomy, mathematics, arithmetics and music.</li>
<li><i>Šarḥ Ḥekmat al-ešrāq Šayḵ Šehāb-al-Din Sohravardi</i>, on
philosophy and mysticism of Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi and his
philosophy of illumination in Arabic.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Qotb_al-
Din_Shirazi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section:
Medicine">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline"
id="Medicine">Medicine</span></h3>

<ul>
<li><i>Al-Toḥfa al-saʿdiya</i> also called <i>Nozhat al-ḥokamāʾ wa
rawżat al-aṭebbāʾ</i>, on <a href="/wiki/Medicine"
title="Medicine">medicine</a>, a comprehensive commentary in five
volumes on the Kolliyāt of the <a href="/wiki/Canon_of_Medicine"
title="Canon of Medicine" class="mw-redirect">Canon</a> of <a href="/
wiki/Avicenna" title="Avicenna">Avicenna</a> written in Arabic.</li>
<li><i>Resāla fi’l-baraṣ</i>, a medical treatise on leprosy in Arabic</
li>

<li><i>Resāla fi bayān al-ḥājat ela’l-ṭebb wa ādāb al-aṭebbāʾ wa
waṣāyā-hom</i></li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Qotb_al-
Din_Shirazi&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section:
Religion, Sufism, Theology, Law, Linguistics and Rhetoric and
others">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Religion.
2C_Sufism.2C_Theology.2C_Law.
2C_Linguistics_and_Rhetoric_and_others">Religion, Sufism, Theology,
Law, Linguistics and Rhetoric and others</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><i>Al-Enteṣāf</i> a gloss in Arabic on <a href="/wiki/Zamakhshari"
title="Zamakhshari" class="mw-redirect">Zamakhshari</a>'s Qurʾan
commentary, al-Kaššāf.</li>
<li><i>Fatḥ al-mannān fi tafsir al-Qorʾān</i> a comprehensive
commentary on the Qurʾan in forty volumes, written in Arabic and also
known by the title Tafsir ʿallāmi</li>

<li><i>Ḥāšia bar Ḥekmat al-ʿayn</i> on theology; it is a commentary of
Ḥekmat al-ʿayn of Najm-al-Din ʿAli Dabirān Kātebi</li>
<li><i>Moškelāt al-eʿrāb</i> on Arabic syntax</li>
<li><i>Moškelāt al-tafāsir or Moškelāt al-Qorʾān, on rhetoric</i></li>
<li><i>Meftāḥ al-meftāhá</i>, a commentary on the third section of the
Meftāḥ al-ʿolum, a book on Arabic grammar and rhetoric by Abu Yaʿqub
Seraj-al-Din Yusof Skkaki Khwarizmi</li>
<li><i>Šarḥ Moḵtaṣar al-oṣul Ebn Ḥājeb</i>, a commentary on Ebn
Ḥājeb’s Montaha’l-soʾāl wa’l-ʿamal fi ʿelmay al-oṣul wa’l-jadwal, a
book on the sources of law according to the <a href="/wiki/Malikite"
title="Malikite" class="mw-redirect">Malikite</a> school of thought</
li>

<li><i>Sazāvār-e Efteḵā</i>, Moḥammad-ʿAli Modarres attributes a book
by this title to Qoṭb-al-Din, without providing any information about
its content</li>
<li><i>Tāj al-ʿolum</i> A book attributed to him by Zerekli</li>
<li><i>al-Tabṣera</i> A book attributed to him by Zerekli</li>
<li><i>A book on ethnics</i> and <i>poetry</i>, Qoṭb-al-Din is also
credited with the authorship of a book on ethics in Persian, written
for Malek ʿEzz-al-Din, the ruler of Shiraz. He also wrote poetry but
apparantely did not leave a divan (a book of poems)</li>

</ul>
<p><br />
Qotb al-Din was also a <a href="/wiki/Sufi" title="Sufi" class="mw-
redirect">Sufi</a> from a family of Sufis in Shiraz. He is famous for
the commentary on <a href="/wiki/School_of_Illumination" title="School
of Illumination" class="mw-redirect">Hikmat al-ishraq</a> of <a href="/
wiki/Shahab_al-Din_Suhrawardi" title="Shahab al-Din
Suhrawardi">Suhrawardi</a>, the most influential work of Islamic
Illuminist philosophy.</p>
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also</span></h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Iranian_scientists" title="List of Iranian
scientists" class="mw-redirect">List of Iranian scientists</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Persian_poets_and_authors" title="List of
Persian poets and authors">List of Persian poets and authors</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Persian_literature" title="Persian
literature">Persian literature</a></li>
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<li id="cite_note-Iranica-0">^ <a href="#cite_ref-
Iranica_0-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-
Iranica_0-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-
Iranica_0-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> Encyclopedia Iranica,
"QOṬB-AL-DIN ŠIRĀZI, Maḥmud b. Żiāʾ-al-Din Masʿud b. Moṣleḥ", Sayyed
ʿAbd-Allāh Anwār <a href="http://www.iranica.com/newsite/index.isc?
Article=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/ot_grp9/
ot_qotbshi_20050829.html" class="external autonumber"
rel="nofollow">[1]</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b> Kennedy, E. S.
- <i>Late Medieval Planetary Theory</i>, Isis, Vol. 57, No. 3.
(Autumn, 1966), pp. 365-378., The University of Chicago Press</li>
<li id="cite_note-2"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b> A. Baker and
L. Chapter (2002), "Part 4: The Sciences". In M. M. Sharif, "A History
of Muslim Philosophy", <i>Philosophia Islamica</i>.</li>
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