Kamal al-Din al-Farisi
1267 CE–1319 CE · Tabriz
Kamal al-Din Hasan ibn Ali ibn Hasan al-Farisi or Abu Hasan Muhammad ibn Hasan (1267– 12 January 1319, long assumed to be 1320; Persian: كمالالدين فارسی) was a Persian Muslim scientist. He made two major contributions to science, one on optics, the other on number theory. Farisi was a pupil of the astronomer and mathematician Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, who in turn was a pupil of Nasir al-Din Tusi. According to Encyclopædia Iranica, Kamal al-Din was the most advanced Persian author on optics.
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Tabriz, in Azerbaijan province of northwestern Iran, was a major commercial city and at times a capital under the Ilkhanid Mongols and the Aq Qoyunlu and early Safavids. The Qur'an commentator al-Baydawi (d. c. 1286), author of the widely studied Anwar al-Tanzil, served as qadi in the city; the philosopher Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i (d. 1981) was born nearby and took the nisba Tabrizi.
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