Al-Shahrazuri
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud Shahrazuriwas a 13th-century Muslimphysician,historianandphilosopher.He was ofKurdishorigin.[1]It appears that he was alive in AD 1288. However, it is also said that he died in the same year.[1]
Shahrazuri was an important historian and scholar of the late 13th century who composed a biographical dictionary of bothancient Greekand earlyMuslimlearned men. Although he wrote a major biographical work on scholars, very little is known about his life, including the dates of his birth and death.[1]Perhaps the most well known work by him isNuzhat al arwâḥ wa rawḍat al-afrâḥ.According to the correction and reprint by M A Khurshid, there are several copies of the book; one of them in theJohn Rylands libraryin Manchester.[1]
Edward Granville Brownementions two medical works attributed to him, one in Arabic and another inPersian language.(E. Browne, p. 100)One of his philosophical works is commentary about philosopherSuhrawardicalledSharḥ Ḥikma al-ishrâq.[2][3]It is also said that the well known commentary works ofQutb al-Din Al ShirazicalledDurrat al-TajaboutSuhrawardi'sHikmat al-Ishraqis based onSharḥ Ḥikma al-ishrâq.[4][5]It is also said that another of his work regarding Suhrawardi's Illumnationist philosophy is the most faithful, calledal-Shajarah al-Ilahiyyah(The Divine Tree).[4]
References
[edit]- ^abcdM A, Khurshid (1976).Nuzhat ul arwah wa rawdhat ul afrah of Rulers and Philosophers. For the model of historians Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud al Shahrazuri(in Arabic) (First ed.). Haidar Abad: Ministry of Culture of India. pp. ز.
- ^Seyyed Hossein, Nasr (1971).The Spread of the Illuminationist School of Suhrawardi(PDF).studiesincomparativereligion.com.
- ^Sharif, Miyad Muhammad (1966).A history of Muslim Philosophy.Royal Book Company. p.396.
- ^abLeaman, Oliver; Nasr, Sayyed Hossein (1971).History of Islamic Philosophy.p. 468.ISBN9781136780448.
- ^R Pourjavady, S Schmidtke (2006).A Jewish philosopher of Baghdad [electronic resource]:'Izz al-Dawla Ibn Kammuna (d. 683/1284) and his writings.Leiden/Boston: EJ Brill. p. 30.
Sources
[edit]For his life and writings, see:
- P. Lory,"Shahrazuri" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, ed. by H.A.R. Gibbs, B. Lewis, Ch. Pellat, C. Bosworth et al., 11 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1960-2002), vol. 9, p. 219
- Manfred Ullmann,Die Medizin im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Erg?nzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p. 232
- Carl Brockelmann,Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937-1942) vol. 1, pp 850–1
- Sami Hamarneh,"Arabic Historiography as Related to the Health Professions in Medieval Islam", Sudhoffs Archiv, vol. 50 (1966), pp 2–24, esp. pp 17–18.
- Edward Granville Browne,Islamic Medicine,2002, Goodword Pub.,ISBN81-87570-19-9
- Michael Privot,Le Kitâb al-rumûz d'al-Shahrazûrî: une oeuvre ishrâqî?(PhD Thesis)[1]
