Razi
Razi (Persian: رازی) or Al-Razi (Arabic: الرازی) was a nisba used in Islamic Persia, to indicate that the person comes from Ray, a city in Persia (Iran).
It is held most famously by the polymath Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi.
Other people who held the nisba include:
People
- Abu Zur’a al-Razi, died 878, Sunni hadith scholar.
- Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Idris al-Razi, died 890, Sunni hadith scholar, together with Abu Zur’a al-Razi known as al-Raziyain.
- Abu Hatim Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Razi, died c. 934, Isma'ili theologian and philosopher.
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi died 925/935, famous Persian physician, inventor of the distillation of alcohol and its use in medicine; philosopher, chemist and alchemist, known also by his Latinized name Rhazes or Rasis.
- Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni Al-Razi, died 941, compiler of hadith, was born in a village named Kulayn or Kulin in Iran.
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi died 1210, Persian theologian and philosopher.
- Najmeddin Razi, 13th-century Persian Sufi.
- Amin Razi, 16th-century Persian geographer.
- Mihran Razi
Locations
- Razi University
- Razi, Ardabil, a city in Iran
- Razi, Golestan, a village in Iran
- Razi, Khuzestan, a village in Iran
- Razi, West Azerbaijan, a village in Iran
- Razi, alternate name of Seyyed Razi, Iran, a village in Iran
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