Al-Sharif al-Jurjani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Al-Sharif al-Jurjani

writer, theologian

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1340

Place of Birth: Gorgan, Golestan Province, Iran

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1413

Profession: theologian, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414) (Persian ??? ?? ???? ??????) was a Persian encyclopedic writer and traditionalist theologian.
He was born near Astarabad and became a professor in Shiraz.
When this city was plundered by Timur 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, of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the Ta?rifat (??????? "Definitions"), which was edited by G Flügel (Leipzig, 1845), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, etc.), and St Petersburg (1897).