Qadi Kamal al-Din Husayn ibn Mu'in al-Din Ali Maybudi ( fa, قادی کمال الدین حسین بن معین الدین علی میبدی), better known as Qadi Husayn Maybudi (), was an Iranian scholar and ''

qadi A qāḍī ( ar, قاضي, Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, cadi, kadi, or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of a '' sharīʿa'' court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and mino ...

'' (judge) in the city of

Yazd Yazd ( fa, یزد ), formerly also known as Yezd, is the capital of Yazd Province, Iran. The city is located southeast of Isfahan. At the 2016 census, the population was 1,138,533. Since 2017, the historical city of Yazd is recognized as a Worl ...

under the

Aq Qoyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu ( az, Ağqoyunlular , ) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (Wh ...

. He was executed in 1504 after having participated in a failed revolt against the

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

shah Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...

(king)

Ismail I Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail (), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Safavid Iran, Iran, ruling as its King of Kings (''Shahanshah'') from 1501 to 1524. His re ...

().

Biography

Born in 1449, Maybudi was presumably a native of the city of

Maybud Meybod ( fa, Meybod) is a city in and capital of Meybod County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 58,295, in 15,703 families. Meybod is a major desert city in Yazd Province, Iran, with a population of about 75,000 m ...

in southern Iran, rather than the neighbouring city of

. The area was then part of the

Timurid Empire The Timurid Empire ( chg, , fa, ), self-designated as Gurkani ( Chagatai: کورگن, ''Küregen''; fa, , ''Gūrkāniyān''), was a PersianateB.F. Manz, ''"Tīmūr Lang"'', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Online Edition, 2006 Turco-Mongol empire ...

. He belonged to an affluent and influential family of aristocratic origin. He was the son of Khwaja Mu'in al-Din Ali, a prominent philanthropist and

vizier A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was a ...

of Yazd. At a young age, Maybudi left for Shiraz to study under prominent scholars such as

Jalal al-Din Davani Jalal al-Din Davani ( fa, جلال الدین دوانی; 1426/7 – 1502), also known as Allama Davani (), was a theologian, philosopher, jurist, and poet, who is considered to have been one of the leading scholars in late 15th-century Iran. A na ...

(died 1503). He was executed in 1504 after having participated in a failed revolt against the

(king)

(). He was survived by at least one of his sons, Mirza Abd al-Rashid al-Munajjim.

His works

# ''Sharh al-hidayah'' (famous commentary on Athir al-Din al-Abhari, cf. Browne IV, p. 57: "Maybodi's commentary . . . is still the favourite text-book for beginners in philosophy . . .") # ''Sharh-i Divan-i Ali ibn Abi Talib'' (Commentary on the poem of

Ali ibn Abi Talib 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. ...

). The book has been published by Miras-i Maktub; Chap-i 1 edition (2000), Published in 1998, , # ''Munsha'at'' # ''Jam-i giti-numa'' # ''Sharh al-Kafiyah fi al-Nahw'' #''Kashf al-asrār waʿuddat al-abrār'' (The Unveiling of the Secrets and the Provisions of the Righteous), a ten-volume Persian

commentary Commentary or commentaries may refer to: Publications * ''Commentary'' (magazine), a U.S. public affairs journal, founded in 1945 and formerly published by the American Jewish Committee * Caesar's Commentaries (disambiguation), a number of works ...

on the

Quran The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Classical Arabic, Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation in Islam, revelation from God in Islam, ...

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* * * 15th-century Iranian philosophers 16th-century Iranian philosophers Islamic philosophers Iranian scholars 1504 deaths Year of birth unknown 15th-century scholars 16th-century scholars Rebellions against Safavid Iran Scholars of the Aq Qoyunlu People executed by Safavid Iran {{Iran-reli-bio-stub