Al-Sharif al-Jurjani

Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414)[3] (Persian علی بن محمد جرجانی) was a Persian[4] encyclopedic writer[3] and traditionalist theologian. He was born near Astarabad and became a professor in Shiraz.[3] When this city was plundered by Timur in 1387, he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death.[3]

Al-Sharif al-Jurjani
Personal
Born	1339 CE
Died	1414 CE Shiraz
Religion	Islam
Era	Ottoman era
Region	Shiraz
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Creed	Maturidi
Main interest(s)	Kalam (Islamic theology), Mantiq (logic), Falkiat
Muslim leader
Influenced by Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari[1], Adud al-Din al-Iji[2], Akmal al-Din al-Babarti
Influenced Shams al-Din al-Fanari, Ali Qushji

The author of more than fifty books,[5] of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the Taʿrīfāt (تعريفات "Definitions"), which was edited by G Flügel (Leipzig, 1845), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, etc.), and St Petersburg (1897).[3]

See also

• List of people from Gorgan

References

1. Gündüz, Sinasi, Sinasi Gunduz, and Cafer S. Yaran, eds. Change and Essence: dialectical relations between change and continuity in the Turkish intellectual tradition. Vol. 18. CRVP, 2005.
2. Ragep, F. Jamil, and Alī al-Qūshjī. "Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy: An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science." Osiris 16 (2001): 49-71.
3. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jurjānī" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 587.
4. Donzel, E. J. van (1 January 1994). Islamic Desk Reference. BRILL. p. 192. ISBN 90-04-09738-4. al-Jurjani, Ali* b. Muhammad (al-Sayyid al-Sharif): Persian grammarian, philosopher and linguist; 1339-1413.
5. Kifayat Ullah, Al-Kashshaf: Al-Zamakhshari's Mu'tazilite Exegesis of the Qur'an, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG (2017), p. 40

External links

• Dhanani, Alnoor (2007). "Jurjānī: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al‐Ḥusaynī al‐Jurjānī (al‐Sayyid al–Sharīf)". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 603–4. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)