Shams al-Din al-Khafri

Al-Sharif al-Jurjani, a revision of Nasir al-Din Tusi's Tazkirah, a treatise on astronomy with extensive annotations and corrections by Shams al-Din Khafri. Created in Iran, probably Shiraz, the manuscript was created in the early 15th century; Khafri's commentaries were added to it in the 16th century

Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Khafri al-Kashi (died 1550), known as Khafri, was an Iranian religious scholar and astronomer at the beginning of the Safavid dynasty.[1] Before the arrival of Sheikh Baha'i in Iran, he was appointed as the major Shia jurist in the Safavid court.[2] He was born in the city of Ḵafr, south east of Firuzābād in the region of Fārs. His exact date of birth is unknown but historical accounts estimate the date of his birth to be around the 1480s.[3] He wrote on philosophy, religion, and astronomy, with the latter including a commentary on al-Tusi and critiques of al-Shirazi. Al-Khafri wrote works on theology and astronomy, indicating that Islamic scholars in his time and place saw no contradictions between Islam and science.[4]

  1. ^ Hockey, Thomas (2014). Biographical encyclopedia of astronomers. New York: Springer. p. 1181. ISBN 9781441999184. Khafri was an Iranian theoretical astronomer who produced innovative planetary theories at a time well beyond the supposed period of the decline of Islamic science.
  2. ^ George Saliba, "Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance", p. 190, MIT Press, (2011).
  3. ^ George Saliba, “ḴAFRI, ŠAMS-AL-DIN,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, XV/4, pp. 341-343,http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kafri
  4. ^ Cooper, Glen M. (2014), "Khafrī: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī al-Kāshī", in Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R.; Bracher, Katherine (eds.), Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, New York, NY: Springer New York, pp. 1181–1183, Bibcode:2014bea..book.1181C, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_754, ISBN 978-1-4419-9916-0, retrieved 2020-11-21