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Nasir al-Din Tusi was born in the city of Tus in medieval Khorasan (northeastern Iran) 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. [ 18] He was born into a Shī‘ah family and lost his father at a young age.
Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Zuhri (767, Medina – 856), Maliki jurist. Apollodorus of Damascus (50, Damascus – 130), architect, engineer, and designer. Abd al-Salam ibn Mashish al-Alami (1140, Jabal Alam – 1227, Jabal Alam), religious scholar of Sufism. Abdullah ibn Umar (610, Mecca – 693, Mecca), Islamic scholar and hadith narrator.
The Book of Fixed Stars ( Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. [ 1] Following the translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across ...
Current situation. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary standard across the Middle East, North Africa and Horn of Africa, and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Most printed material in the Arab League —including most books, newspapers, magazines, official documents, and reading primers for small children—is ...
Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى التراثية, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā at-Turāthīyah, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic') is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, elevated prose and oratory, and is also ...
Language. Arabic. Publication date. 987. The Kitāb al-Fihrist ( Arabic: كتاب الفهرست) ( The Book Catalogue) is a compendium of the knowledge and literature of tenth-century Islam compiled by Ibn al-Nadim (d.998). It references approx. 10,000 books and 2,000 authors. [1] This crucial source of medieval Arabic -Islamic literature ...
Ad-Din ( Arabic: الْدِّين ad- dīn [ædˈdiːn], " (of) the religion/faith/creed") is a suffix component of some Arabic names in the construct case, meaning 'the religion/faith/creed', e.g. Saif ad-Din ( Arabic: سيف الدّين Sayf ad-Dīn, "Sword of the Faith"). Varieties are also used in non-Arabic names throughout the Muslim ...
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