Jahan-i danish

Sharaf al-Din Mas'udi (6th/12th cent.) was a philosopher, astronomer, mathematician and logician. A native of Marw, he spent a large part of his life in Bukhara and Samarqand, Transoxiana. In Bukhara he had a number of debates with the philosopher and theologian Fakhr al-Din Razi (d. 606/1210), described in the latter's Munazarat jarat fi bilad Ma wara? al-nahr. From among his philosophical works,...