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Nasir al-Din Tusi was the most celebrated scholar of the 13th century in Islamic lands. Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon were his contemporaries in the West. The ensemble of Tusi’s writings amounts to approximately 165 titles on astronomy, ethics, history, jurisprudence, logic, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, theology, poetry and the popular ...
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posted on: Apr 2, 2021 By: Ahmed Abu Sultan/Arab America Contributing Writer Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tūsī, better known as Nasir al-Din Tusi was a polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian. One of the greatest scientists of Islam, he is often considered the creator of trigonometry as a mathematical discipl...
Nasir al-Din Tusi was born in the city of Tus in Khorasan in the year 1201 and began his studies at an early age. In Hamadan and Tus he studied the Quran, hadith, Ja’fari jurisprudence, logic, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, and astronomy. Fulfilling the wish of his father, the young Muhammad took learning and scholarship very seriously and trav...
During his stay in Nishapur, Tusi established a reputation as an exceptional scholar. Tusi’s prose writing, which numbers over 150 works, represents one of the largest collections by a single Islamic author. Writing in both Arabic and Persian, Nasir al-Din Tusi dealt with both religious topics and non-religious or secular subjects. His works includ...
Tusi valued the importance of logic and its benefits to the evolution of civilization. He was a supporter of Avicennian logic as well. The usage of logic opened the path for the creation of trigonometry. Al-Tusi was the first to write a work on trigonometry independently of astronomy. Al-Tusi, in his Treatise on the Quadrilateral, gave an extensive...
Tusi was one of the few innovators of his time to consider the biological status of humans. In his Akhlaq-i Nasiri, Tusi wrote about several biological topics. He defended a version of Aristotle’s scala naturae, in which he placed man above animals, plants, minerals, and the elements. Tusi seems to have perceived man as belonging to the animals sin...
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (1201 – 1274), also known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (Arabic: نصیر الدین الطوسی; Persian: نصیر الدین طوسی) or simply as (al-)Tusi, was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian.
Al-Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201-1274) was one of the greatest scholars of his time and one of the most influential figures in Islamic intellectual history. He was a scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and theologian. He created ingenious mathematical models for use in astronomy.
Jun 26, 2020 · Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī, one of the greatest polymaths of medieval Islamic philosophy and science, died in Baghdad during the night of June 25th/26th, 1274 (Gregorian calendar, or AH 672 in the Islamic calendar).
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. 1201-1274. Arab Mathematician and Astronomer. I n 1259, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi persuaded the Mongol conqueror Hulagu Khan (c. 1217-1265) to establish an observatory at Maragheh in what is now Azerbaijan.
Feb 26, 2013 · Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Tusi (born in 18 February 1201 in Tus, Khorasan – died on 26 June 1274 in Baghdad), better known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, was a Muslim Persian scholar and prolific writer in different fields of science and philosophy.
