Maragha
Maragha, in Azerbaijan province of northwestern Iran, was a capital of the Ilkhanid Mongols and the site of the famous observatory founded around 1259 by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 1274) under Hulagu Khan, where al-Tusi and a team including Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi advanced astronomy. The shrine of the philosopher al-Suhrawardi is associated with the region's intellectual history.
12 most-discussed ideas
Works composed here
- 1325
Bab Hadi Cashar
- 1325
Idah Ishtibah
- 1325
Irshad Adhhan
- 1325
Kashf Murad
- 1325
Kashf Yaqin
- 1325
Khulasat Aqwal
- 1325
Kitab Alfayn
- 1325
Mabadi Wusul
- 1325
Manahij Yaqin
- 1325
Minhaj Karama
- 1325
Mukhtalaf Shica
- 1325
Muntaha Matlab
- 1325
Mustajad Min Irshad
- 1325
Nafic Yawm Hashr
- 1325
Nahj Haqq
- 1325
Nihayat Ahkam
- 1325
Nihayat Maram
- 1325
Nihayat Wusul
- 1325
Qawacid Ahkam
- 1325
Rijal
- 1325
Risala Sacdiyya
- 1325
Tabsirat Mutacallimin
- 1325
Tadhkirat Fuqaha
- 1325
Tahdhib Wusul
- 1325
Tahrir Ahkam
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Maragha. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Imāma (The Imāmate)20 passages
- ʿIṣma (Infallibility of the Imams)17 passages
- Ijmāʿ (Scholarly Consensus)16 passages
- ʿAdl (Divine Justice)15 passages
- Tawḥīd (Divine Oneness)14 passages
- Taqlīd (Following Legal Authority)14 passages
- al-Amr bi-l-Maʿrūf (Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong)13 passages
- Qadar (Divine Decree & Predestination)13 passages
- The Twelve Imams (al-Aʾimma al-Ithnā ʿAshar)13 passages
- al-Ḥusn wa-l-Qubḥ (Moral Value of Acts)13 passages
- Qiyās (Analogical Reasoning)13 passages
- Kasb (Acquisition of Acts)13 passages