Sunday 8 February 2015

The Great Islamic Scholar, Scientist, Historian, Philosopher, Legislator and Author : Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

In the Name of Allah The Most Merciful The Most Beneficent


The Great Islamic Scholar, Scientist, Historian, Philosopher, Legislator and  Author :
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Husayn al-Taymi al-Bakri al-Tabaristani Fakhr al-Din al-Razi[1](Arabic/Persian: أبو عبدالله محمد بن عمر بن الحسین فخرالدین الرازي), also known as Fakhruddin Razi or Imam Razi, was a well-known Persian[2][3] polymath:[4] a Sunni Islamic theologian of the Ash'ari school, Islamic legal scholar of the Shafi'i school, Madrasah professor, and expert in a wide variety of disciplines, including the traditional Islamic fields of Sharia law, Fiqh jurisprudence, Islamic literature,Tafsir exegesis, Kalam theology, Arabic grammar andMuslim history; the Islamic philosophies of ethics andmetaphysics; the formal sciences of logic andmathematics; the natural sciences of astronomy,cosmology and physicsIslamic psychology;[5] medicine;[6]and the occult arts of alchemy and astrology.[7] He was born in 1149 CE (543 AH) in Ray, Iran, and died in 1209 CE (606 AH) in HeratAfghanistan.[8]
 Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.   A title page of Mafatih al-Ghayb, a classical book of tafsir (Quranic exegesis) by the Persian scholar Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, copied in Egypt in the 1300s.
During his lifetime in the 1100s, al-Razi wrote numerous books on theology, Quran, medicine, astronomy, law, and history.[9]


For more about Him see these link: [10]


Reference:
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1. Ibn Khallikan. Wafayat Al-a'yan Wa Anba' Abna' Al-zaman. Translated by William MacGuckin Slane. (1961) Pakistan Historical Society. pp. 224.
2. Richard Maxwell Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760,University of California Press,1996, - Page 29
3. Shaikh M. Ghazanfar, Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics,Routledge, 2003 [1]
6. Muammer İskenderoğlu (2002), Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Thomas Aquinas on the question of the eternity of the world, Brill Publishers, p. 59, ISBN 9004124802
7.↑ 7.0 7.1 Manfred Ullmann, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik,Abteilung I, Ergänzungsband VI, Abschnitt 2 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972), pp. 388-390.
8. http://islam.wikia.com/wiki/Fakhr_al-Din_al-Razi
10. a) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakhr_ad-Din_ar-Razi

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