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Isfahani
Isfahani ( fa, اصفهانی) or Ispahani is a surname of Iranian origin. It may refer to the following: * Al-Isfahani * Al-Raghib al-Isfahani * Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani * Jalal al-Din Muhammad al-Isfahani See also * Isfahan * Al-Isfahani (other) * Isfahani style The "Esfahani" or "Isfahani style" (شیوه معماری اصفهانی) is a style of architecture () defined by Mohammad Karim Pirnia when categorizing Iranian architecture development in history. Landmarks of this style span through the Safavid ... {{surname Iranian-language surnames Toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Isfahani (other)
The name Al-Isfahani is a ''nisba'' indicating someone from the city of Isfahan, Iran. People with this name include: * Hamza al-Isfahani (d. 961), Persian historian * Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (d. 967), Arab historian and author of ''Kitāb al-Aghānī'' * Abu Bakr al-Isfahani (d. 908), Persian scholar in Warsh recitation * Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (d. 1038), shafi'i hadith scholar who wrote the most important source for the early development of Sufism * Abu-l-Fath Mahmud ibn Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Fadl al-Isfahani, a 10th-century Persian mathematician * Al-Raghib al-Isfahani (d.1108/1109), an Islamic scholar * Ghiyath al-Din 'Ali ibn Amirin al-Husayni al-Isfahani, a 15th-century Persian physician and scientist from Isfahan * Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani Muhammad ibn Hamed Isfahani (1125 – 20 June 1201) ( fa, محمد ابن حامد اصفهانی), more popularly known as Imad ad-din al-Isfahani ( fa, عماد الدین اصفهانی) ( ar, عماد الدين الأصفه ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Raghib Al-Isfahani
Abul-Qasim al-Hussein bin Mufaddal bin Muhammad, better known as Raghib aaghibIsfahani ( fa, ابوالقاسم حسین ابن محمّد الراغب الاصفهانی), was an eleventh-century Muslim scholar of Qur'anic exegesis and the Arabic language. Biography Al-Raghib Al-Isfahani - meaning "the Isfahanian monk" - was born in Isfahan as his name suggests, though his exact date of birth is not known.al-Raghib al-Isfahani . Ed. . |
Imad Ad-Din Al-Isfahani
Muhammad ibn Hamed Isfahani (1125 – 20 June 1201) ( fa, محمد ابن حامد اصفهانی), more popularly known as Imad ad-din al-Isfahani ( fa, عماد الدین اصفهانی) ( ar, عماد الدين الأصفهاني), was a historian, scholar, and rhetorician of Persian origin.Donald S. Richards, "Emad al-Din Kateb Esfahani" in Encyclopedia Iranica. "The family of Persian origin into which ʿEmād-al-Dīn Kāteb was born had a tradition of administrative service for the Saljuq dynasty and the caliphate./ref> He left a valuable anthology of Arabic poetry to accompany his many historical workshttp://www.crusades-encyclopedia.com/imadaldin.html and worked as a man of letters during the Zengid and Ayyubid period. Biography He was born in Isfahan in the year 1125, and studied at the Nizamiyya school in Baghdad. He graduated into the bureaucracy, and held jurisdiction over Basra and Wasit. He then became a deputy of the vizier ibn Hubayra. After the death of ib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalal Al-Din Muhammad Al-Isfahani
Jalal al-Din Muhammad al-Isfahani was a 19th-century Persian physician from Isfahan. Jalal al-Din Muhammad al-Isfahani, who refers to himself as ''al-tabib al-Isfahani'' ("the physician of Isfahan"), composed an Arabic general treatise on therapeutics, arranged in order from head to foot. It was completed on 9 December 1828. The date of completion is given in another copy of the treatise now at the University of California at Los Angeles Biomedical Library, Coll. 1062, MS Ar. 36. The National Library of Medicine has one of three recorded copies of this treatise. There is also a Persian treatise titled ''Dastur-i Jalali'' by the same author, presumably a translation of the original Arabic. Another Persian treatise on the preservation of health in the human body, ''Hifz-i sihhat-i badan al-insaniyah'' is presumably by the same author, but it is said to have been dedicated to the ruler Abu al-Muzaffar Abu al-Mansur Shah Sulayman al-Safawi al-Musawi Bahadur Khan, who ruled from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Isfahani
Abu al-Fath Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Qasim ibn Fadl al-Isfahani , Latinized 𝐀𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬, 𝐀𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬, was a 10th-century Persian people, Persian mathematician. He flourished probably around 982 AD in Isfahan (city), Isfahan. He gave a better Arabic edition of the Conics of Apollonius of Perga, Apollonius and commented on the first books. The Conics had been translated a century before by Hilal al-Himsi (books 1–4) and Thabit ibn Qurra (books 5–7). See also * List of Iranian scientists References Sources *H. Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (98, 1900). 10th-century Iranian mathematicians {{Asia-mathematician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Region, Isfahan Province, Iran. It is located south of Tehran and is the capital of Isfahan Province. The city has a population of approximately 2,220,000, making it the third-largest city in Iran, after Tehran and Mashhad, and the second-largest metropolitan area. Isfahan is located at the intersection of the two principal routes that traverse Iran, north–south and east–west. Isfahan flourished between the 9th and 18th centuries. Under the Safavids, Safavid dynasty, Isfahan became the capital of Achaemenid Empire, Persia, for the second time in its history, under Shah Abbas the Great. The city retains much of its history. It is famous for its Perso–Islamic architecture, grand boulevards, covered bridges, palaces, tiled mosques, and mina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isfahani Style
The "Esfahani" or "Isfahani style" (شیوه معماری اصفهانی) is a style of architecture () defined by Mohammad Karim Pirnia when categorizing Iranian architecture development in history. Landmarks of this style span through the Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, and Qajar dynasties starting from the 16th century to the early 20th century. The Isfahani style is the last style of traditional Persian–Iranian architecture.''Sabk Shenasi Mi'mari Irani'' (Study of styles in Iranian architecture), M. Karim Pirnia. 2005. pp.272 The Safavid dynasty were chiefly instrumental in the emergence of this architectural style, which soon spread to India in what became known as Mughal architecture. Examples Examples of the Isfahani style include: *Chehelsotoon * Ali Qapu *Agha Bozorg Mosque, Kashan * Shah Mosque *Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque. See also *Isfahan *Iranian architecture * List of the historical structures in the Isfahan province *School of Isfahan The Isfahan School () is a scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
