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Qutb al-Din Shirazi
Photo taken from a manuscript by Qutb al-Din Shirazi. The image depicts an epicyclic planetary model
BornOctober 1236
Died7 February 1311

Qutb al-Din Shirazi (Persian: قطب‌الدین شیرازی; 1236 – 1311) was a Persian polymath, Sufi, and poet.

Biography

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Qutb al-Din was born on October 1236 in the city of Shiraz,[1] which at the time served as the capital of the Salghurid atabegate.[2] He belonged to the Kazaruni family, which was distinguished for its physicians.[3] His father Zia al-Din Mas'ud Kazaruni, was a renowned physician and Sufi who worked at the Muzaffari hospital in Shiraz. Under his guidance, Qutb al-Din studied medicine. He also studied the Qanun (the Canon) by the scholar Avicenna (died 1037), as well as its commentaries, especially the one by Fakhr al-Din Razi (died 1210), which he considered to have many errors. Following Zia al-Din's death, Qutb al-Din, at the age of fourteen, succeeded him as an ophthalmologist at the Muzaffari hospital. He also continued his studies in medicine, this time under Kamal al-Din Abu'l-Khayr, and then later under Sharaf al-Din Zaki Bushkani and Shams al-Din Muhammad Kishi, both well-versed in the Qanun.[1]

Qutb al-Din later went to Tabriz, where he stayed during his final years. He died on 7 February 1311 and was buried in the Charandab Cemetery of the city, near the tomb of Qadi Baydawi (died 1319).[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Anwar 2005.
  2. ^ Spuler 1987, pp. 894–896.
  3. ^ Kamola 2019, p. 70.

Sources

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  • Anwar, Sayyed 'Abd-Allah (2005). "Qoṭb-al-Din Širāzi". Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition. New York.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Kamola, Stefan (2019). Making Mongol History Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1474421423.
  • Spuler, B. (1987). "Atābakān-e Fārs". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume II/8: Aśoka IV–Āṯār al-Wozarāʾ. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 894–896. ISBN 978-0-71009-108-6.
  • Wiedemann, E. (1986). "Ḳuṭb al-Dīn S̲h̲īrāzī". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume V: Khe–Mahi. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 547–548. ISBN 978-90-04-07819-2.