Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

About Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Who is it?: Writer
Birth Day: February 18, 1201
Birth Place: Tous, Iranian
Died On: 26 June 1274(1274-06-26) (aged 73)\nAl-Kadhimiya Mosque, Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Ilkhanate
Birth Sign: Pisces
Title: Khawaja Nasir
Ethnicity: Persian
Era: Islamic Golden Age
Region: Persia
Religion: Islam
Jurisprudence: Twelver
Creed: Avicennism
Main interest(s): Kalam, Islamic Philosophy, Astronomy, Mathematics, Biology and Medicine, Physics, Science
Notable idea(s): Spherical trigonometry, Tusi couple
Notable work(s): Rawḍa-yi Taslīm, Tajrīd al-'Aqa'id, Akhlaq-i-Nasri, Zij-i ilkhani, al-Risalah al-Asturlabiyah, Al-Tadhkirah fi'ilm al-hay'ah
Teachers: Kamal al-Din Yunus

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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was born on February 18, 1201 in Tous, Iranian, is Writer. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was a prolific author and an eminent scholar in the Islamic medieval period who wrote in different fields of philosophy and science. He was a multi-talented personality who made several accomplishments in a wide range of learning areas, including mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, architecture, theology, Islamic medicine, occult sciences, music, logic, physiology, literature and geography. He made major findings in the fields of astronomy and trigonometry, years before anyone even thought of them. He was instrumental in establishing one of the largest astronomical observatories in the Islamic world, situated in Maragha, modern-day Azerbaijan. He is known for introducing astronomical tables for planetary movements, which were used by astrologers in the coming years. He started writing as a student and went on to become a talented and learned intellectual. His journey of discovering and researching on a variety of subjects began when he was captured and hired as a scientific advisor by Mongol leader Hulagu Khan. He is credited for authoring over 150 books in Arabic and Persian in Islamic subjects as well as in secular areas. He translated the works of some of the most distinguished mathematicians and astrologers in Arabic
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Famous Quotes:

"What spurred him to this was that in the assertoric syllogistic Aristotle and others sometimes used contradictories of absolute propositions on the assumption that they are absolute; and that was why so many decided that absolutes did contradict absolutes. When Avicenna had shown this to be wrong, he wanted to give a way of construing those examples from Aristotle."

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1543

Ṭūsī criticized Ptolemy's use of observational evidence to show that the Earth was at rest, noting that such proofs were not decisive. Although it doesn't mean that he was a supporter of mobility of the earth, as he and his 16th-century commentator al-Bīrjandī, maintained that the earth's immobility could be demonstrated, but only by physical principles found in natural philosophy. Tusi's criticisms of Ptolemy were similar to the arguments later used by Copernicus in 1543 to defend the Earth's rotation.

1610

About the real essence of the Milky Way, Ṭūsī in his Tadhkira writes: "The Milky Way, i.e. the galaxy, is made up of a very large number of small, tightly-clustered stars, which, on account of their concentration and smallness, seem to be cloudy patches. because of this, it was likend to milk in color." Three centuries later the proof of the Milky Way consisting of many stars came in 1610 when Galileo Galilei used a telescope to study the Milky Way and discovered that it is really composed of a huge number of faint stars.

2018

He was apparently born into a Shī‘ah family and lost his Father at a young age. Fulfilling the wish of his Father, the young Muhammad took learning and scholarship very seriously and travelled far and wide to attend the lectures of renowned scholars and acquire the knowledge, an exercise highly encouraged in his Islamic faith. At a young age he moved to Nishapur to study philosophy under Farid al-Din Damad and mathematics under Muhammad Hasib. He met also Attar of Nishapur, the legendary Sufi master who was later killed by the Mongols, and he attended the lectures of Qutb al-Din al-Misri.

2019

During his stay in Nishapur, Tusi established a reputation as an exceptional scholar. "Tusi’s prose writing, which number over 150 works, represent one of the largest collections by a single Islamic author. Writing in both Arabic and Persian, Nasir al-Din Tusi dealt with both religious ("Islamic") topics and non-religious or secular subjects ("the ancient sciences"). His works include the definitive Arabic versions of the works of Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Autolycus, and Theodosius of Bithynia.