Al-Sharif al-Jurjani
Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414) (Persian علی بن محمد جرجانی) was a Persian 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. He was born in the village of Ṭāḡu near Astarabad in Gorgan (hence the nisba "Jurjani"), 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.
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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 | |
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| Born | 1339 CE Ṭāḡu near Astarabad in Gorgān |
| Died | 1414 CE Shiraz |
| Religion | Islam |
| Era | early Timurid period |
| Region | Shiraz |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
| Main interest(s) | Kalam((arabic grammar)) (Islamic theology), Mantiq (logic), Falkiat |
| Notable work(s) | Jurjani Definitions, Sharh al-Mawaqif |
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The author of more than fifty books, of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the Taʿrīfāt (تعريفات "Definitions"), which was edited by G Flügel (Leipzig, 1845), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, etc.), and St Petersburg (1897).