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Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi

Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi

1135 CE1213 CE · Tus

Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ṭūsī (Persian: شرف‌الدین مظفر بن محمد بن مظفر توسی; c. 1135 – c. 1213) usually shortened to Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, was a Persian mathematician and astronomer of the Islamic Golden Age.

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Tus

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About Tus

Tus, in the Khurasan region of northeastern Iran near modern Mashhad, was a major medieval city, birthplace of the poet Firdawsi (d. c. 1020) and of the theologian al-Ghazali (d. 1111), who was born and died there. Nearby is the shrine that grew up around the tomb of the imam Ali al-Rida (d. 818); the polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 1274) also took his nisba from the city.

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