Husayni Isfahani

Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī Amīrān Iṣfahānī (Arabic: غياث الدين على ابن حسينى ابن على اميرا الاصفهاني) was a fifteenth-century Persian physician and scientist from Isfahan, Iran. He was, in the words of Daniel Beben, 'a polymath in the service of several of the Timurid governors of Badakhshān in the second half of the 15th century' CE.^[1]^: 377 Little is known of him beyond the works attributed to him.

^ Daniel Beben, 'The Ṣaḥīfat al-nāẓirīn: Reflections on Authorship and Confessional Identity in a 15th-Century Central Asian Text', in Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond, ed. by Wafi A. Momin (London: I.B. Tauris, 2022), pp. 369–88; doi:10.5040/9780755645411.ch-015.

[:9-1] Daniel Beben, 'The Ṣaḥīfat al-nāẓirīn: Reflections on Authorship and Confessional Identity in a 15th-Century Central Asian Text', in Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond, ed. by Wafi A. Momin (London: I.B. Tauris, 2022), pp. 369–88; doi:10.5040/9780755645411.ch-015.

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