?Aql u ?ishq ya Munazarat-i khams

Ibn Turka Isfahani (d. 835/1432) stemmed from a well-educated family in Isfahan. In 789/1387, following Timur Lang's (d. 807/1405) massacre of the population of Isfahan, he and his older brother were among the artists and scholars whose lives were spared and marched off to the capital Samarqand. Ibn Turka studied the Islamic sciences under this brother for 25 years. He then went on a study tour th...