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Jamshid al-Kashi

Jamshid al-Kashi

1380 CE1429 CE · Kashan

Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd al-Kāshī (or al-Kāshānī) (Persian: غیاث‌الدین جمشید کاشانی Ghiyās-ud-dīn Jamshīd Kāshānī; c. 1380 – 22 June 1429) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician during the reign of Tamerlane. Much of al-Kāshī's work was not brought to Europe and still, even the extant work, remains unpublished in any form.

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Kashan

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About Kashan

Kashan, on the edge of the central Iranian desert, was a town noted for its ceramics (whence the term 'kashi' for tilework) and a centre of Shi'i learning. The philosopher and traditionist al-Fayd al-Kashani (d. 1680), a student of Mulla Sadra and major figure of the Safavid intellectual world, took his nisba from the city.

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