1236-1311 Persian mathematician, astronomer, and physician who devised a geometrical model for planetary longitudes that involved a minimum of rotating vectors. Al-Shirazi wrote on geometry, medicine, philosophy, theology, and optics. Some scholars...

Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236 – 1311) was a 13th century Persian Muslim astronomer, mathematician, physician, physicist and scientist and from Shiraz,...

Qutb al-Din Shirazi was a thirteenth-century Persian physician, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and Sufi, much of whose career was spent in the service of the Mongol II-Khans. This study is focused on two philosophical works by Qutb al-Din, a commentary on Suhrawardi's Philosophy of...

The work of the Egyptian thinker and activist Qutb is dominated by the concept of jahiliyyah. In developing this theory, Qutb took as one of its bases the idea of hakimiyyah. An understanding of hakimiyyah is therefore important to the study of Qutb's...