Shams al-Din Muhammad Mahmud Shahrazuri (Kurdish:شەمسەددین محەممەد مەحموود شارەزووری) knowns asShahrazuri (Kurdish:شارەزووری) was a 13th-century Muslimphysician,historian andphilosopher. He was ofKurdish origin.[1] It appears that he was alive in AD 1288. However, it is also said that he died in the same year.[1]
Shahrazuri was an important historian and scholar of the late 13th century who composed a biographical dictionary of bothancient Greek and earlyMuslim learned men. Although he wrote a major biographical work on scholars, very little is known about his life, including the dates of his birth and death.[1] Perhaps the most well known work by him isNuzhat al arwâḥ wa rawḍat al-afrâḥ. According to the correction and reprint by M A Khurshid, there are several copies of the book; one of them in theJohn Rylands library in Manchester.[1]
Edward Granville Browne mentions two medical works attributed to him, one in Arabic and another inPersian language.(E. Browne, p. 100) One of his philosophical works is commentary about philosopherSuhrawardi calledSharḥ Ḥikma al-ishrâq.[2][3] It is also said that the well known commentary works ofQutb al-Din Al Shirazi calledDurrat al-Taj aboutSuhrawardi'sHikmat al-Ishraq is based onSharḥ Ḥikma al-ishrâq.[4][5] It is also said that another of his work regarding Suhrawardi's Illumnationist philosophy is the most faithful, calledal-Shajarah al-Ilahiyyah (The Divine Tree).[4]
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