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Abū Tāhir Muhammad Sajāwandī
Born12th century CE
Sajawand, Zabulistan, Ghaznavid Empire (modern-day Afghanistan)
Died1203 CE
Sajawand, Zabulistan, Ghorid Empire (modern-day Afghanistan)
Academic background
Influences Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Al Biruni
Academic work
Era Islamic Golden Age
Main interests Islamic inheritance jurisprudence, mathematics, astrology, geography, theology
Notable works The Sirajiyya, The Analogy for the Calculations, Treatise on Algebra
Influenced Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, Shahab ud-Din Ahmad ibn Mahmud al-Siwasi, Burhan ud-Din Haidar ibn Muhammad al-Hirwi, Shams ud-Din ibn Hamza al-Fanari, Abdul Karim ibn Muhammad al-Hamdani

Sirāj ud-Dīn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd Sajāwandī ( Persian: محمد ابن محمد ابن عبدالرشید سجاوندی) also known as Abū Tāhir Muhammad al-Sajāwandī al-Hanafī ( Arabic: ابی طاهر محمد السجاوندي الحنفي) and the honorific Sirāj ud-Dīn (سراج الدین, "lamp of the faith") (died c. 1203 CE or 600 AH) [1] was a 12th-century Hanafi scholar of Islamic inheritance jurisprudence, mathematics [2] astrology and geography. [3] He is primarily known for his work Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah ( Arabic:کتاب الفرائض السراجیه), commonly known simply as "the Sirājīyah", which is a principal work on Hanafi inheritance law. [2] [4] The work was translated into English by Sir William Jones in 1792 for subsequent use in the courts of British India. [5] [4] [6] He was the grand-nephew of qari Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi. He lies buried in the Ziārat-e Hazrat-o 'Āshiqān wa Ārifān in Sajawand. [7]

Name

His full name is Sirāj ud-Dīn Abū Tāhir Muḥammad Ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd ibn Tayfoūr Sajāwandī ( Persian: سراج الدین محمد سجاوندی). [1] His nasab, Ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd ibn Tayfoūr refers to him being the "son of Muhammad son of 'Abd ur-Rashīd son of Tayfour". Sajāwandī is his nisbah meaning "from Sajawand". He is also known by the teknonym Abū Tāhir meaning "father of Tahir".

Works

  • Kitāb al-Farāʼiẓ al-Sirājīyah (The Sirajite Book of Inhertiance laws, کتاب الفرائض السراجیه) a.k.a. al-Sirājīyah ("The Sirajite")
  • al-Tajnīs Fī al-Hasāb (The Analogy for the Calculations , کتاب التجنیس فی الحساب)
  • Resālat Fī al-Jabr wa al-Muqābilah (Treatise on Algebra , رسالة فی الجبر و المقابله)

References

  1. ^ a b الزركلي, خير الدين. الأعلام - ج 7 : محمد بن قاسم - نافع بن الحارث (in Arabic). IslamKotob.
  2. ^ a b "Al Sirajiyyah: Or the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance". 1890. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. ^ King, David A. (12 November 2012). "Islamic astronomy and geography | Sci-napse | Academic search engine for paper". Scinapse. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
  4. ^ a b Young, M. J. L.; Latham, J. D.; Serjeant, R. B. (2006-11-02). Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  9780521028875.
  5. ^ Kozlowski, Gregory C. (2008-10-30). Muslim Endowments and Society in British India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  9780521088671.
  6. ^ Zaman, Muhammad Qasim (2010-12-16). The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change. Princeton University Press. ISBN  9781400837519.
  7. ^ "د لوګر تاريخي، فرهنګي محلات". loyghar.bloguna.tolafghan.com. Retrieved 2018-12-10.

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