Baha al-Din al-Amili | |
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Born | 18 February 1547 |
Died | 1 September 1621 | (aged 74)
Title | Sheikh |
Academic background | |
Influences | Nimatullah Wali |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Shia Polymath, scholar, poet, philosopher, architect and mathematician |
School or tradition | Isfahan School |
Main interests | Mathematics, Architecture, Astronomy, Philosophy and Poetry |
Notable works | Tashrīḥ Al-Aflāk, Al-Khashkūl, Nān wa ḥalwā |
Influenced | Haydar Amuli, Mir Damad, Mulla Sadra, Mohsen Fayz Kashani |
Baha al-Din Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Amili (Arabic: بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; 18 February 1547 – 1 September 1621),[1] also known as Bahāddīn ʿĀmilī, or just Sheikh Bahāʾi (Persian: شیخ بهایی) in Iran, was a Levantine Arab[2] Shia Islamic scholar,[3] poet, philosopher, architect, mathematician and astronomer, who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Safavid Iran.[4] He was born in Baalbek, Ottoman Syria (present-day Lebanon) but immigrated in his childhood to Safavid Iran with the rest of his family.[4] He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory.[1]
He wrote over 100 treatises and books in different topics,[1] in Arabic and Persian. A number of architectural and engineering designs are attributed to him, but none can be substantiated with sources.[1] These may have included the Naqsh-e Jahan Square and Charbagh Avenue in Isfahan.[5] He is buried in Imam Reza shrine in Mashad in Iran.