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Al-Abharī, Athīr al-Dīn
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Athīr al-Dīn al-Mufaḍḍal b. ʿUmar b. al-Mufaḍḍal
al-Abharī (d. between 660/1263 and 663/1265) was a philosopher and an astronomer, most probably from Abhar, a small town between Qazwīn and Zanjān. He is known to have been a student of Kamāl al-Dīn b. Yūnus (d. 639/1242) and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210). The scanty information on his career places him mainly in Mosul, but he also spent time in Anatolia, Hama (Ḥamāt), and Damascus. Among his students were al-Kātibī al-Qazwīnī (d. 657/1276?), Abū Za…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
Afḍal al-Dīn Turka
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Afḍal al-Dīn Turka is the name of three members of the Turka family of
qāḍīs and religious scholars of Isfahan: Afḍal al-Dīn b. Abī Ḥāmid (fl. late eighth/fourteenth century), Abū l-Fatḥ Muḥammad Afḍal al-Dīn b. Ṣadr al-Dīn (d. 850/1446), and Afḍal al-Dīn b. Ḥabīballāh (d. 991/1583). It was a common trend, from the eighth/fourteenth to the tenth/sixteenth century, for members of notable families in the Isfahani administration to inherit the same office, from one generation to the next, and this was true of the Turkas, who mostly served as
qāḍīs. An interest in philosophy and mystici…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
