Commentary on At-Tusi's Tadhkira

Birjandi, Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn al-. Sharh al-tadhkirah.

€ 45,000.00

A rare, complete, and well-preserved late mid-17th century manuscript of Al-Birjandi's "Sharh al-Tadhkirah", a commentary on the "Tadhkira", the memoir of the Persian polymath at-Tusi (1201-74). As consistent with the Islamic tradition of commentary, Al-Birjandi provides explanations for the reader and provides alternative views while assessing the viewpoints of predecessors.

Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn Birjandi (d. 1528) was a prominent Persian astronomer, mathematician and physicist from Birjand. A pupil of Mansur ibn Muin al-Din al-Kashi, of the Ulugh Beg Observatory, he anticipated notions later developed by Galileo Galilei in the West.

Binding rubbed and bumped at extremeties. Some brownstains throughout; first and last leaves remargined. Several old waqf stamps.