Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414) (

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) was a

encyclopedic writer and traditionalist theologian. He is referred to as "al-Sayyid al-Sharif" in sources due to his alleged descent from

Ali ibn Abi Taleb ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

. He was born in the village of Ṭāḡu near

Astarabad Gorgan ( fa, گرگان ; also romanized as ''Gorgān'', ''Gurgān'', and ''Gurgan''), formerly Esterabad ( ; also romanized as ''Astarābād'', ''Asterabad'', and ''Esterābād''), is the capital city of Golestan Province, Iran. It lies app ...

in Gorgan (hence the ''nisba'' "Jurjani"), and became a professor in

Shiraz Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...

. When this city was plundered by

Timur Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kü ...

in 1387, he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death. The author of more than fifty books,Kifayat Ullah, ''Al-Kashshaf: Al-Zamakhshari's Mu'tazilite Exegesis of the Qur'an'', Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG (2017), p. 40 of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the ''Taʿrīfāt'' (تعريفات "

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"), which was edited by G Flügel (Leipzig, 1845), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, etc.), and St Petersburg (1897).

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Hanafis Maturidis Asharis 1339 births 1414 deaths 14th-century Persian-language writers 15th-century Persian-language writers People from Gorgan 14th-century Muslim theologians 15th-century Muslim theologians Scholars from the Timurid Empire 14th-century Iranian people 15th-century Iranian people {{Iran-bio-stub

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