Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud Shahrazuri was a 13th-century Muslim

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and philosopher. He was of

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origin. It appears that he was alive in AD 1288. However, it is also said that he died in the same year. Shahrazuri was an important historian and scholar of the late 13th century who composed a biographical dictionary of both

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and early Muslim learned men. Although he wrote a major biographical work on scholars, very little is known about his life, including the dates of his birth and death. Perhaps the most well known work by him is ''Nuzhat al arwâḥ wa rawḍat al-afrâḥ''. According to the correction and reprint by M A Khurshid, there are several copies of the book; one of them in the

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in Manchester.

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mentions two medical works attributed to him, one in Arabic and another in

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.(E. Browne, p. 100) One of his philosophical works is commentary about philosopher Suhrawardi called ''Sharḥ Ḥikma al-ishrâq''. It is also said that the well known commentary works of

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called ''Durrat al-Taj'' about Suhrawardi's Hikmat al-Ishraq is based on ''Sharḥ Ḥikma al-ishrâq''. It is also said that another of his work regarding Suhrawardi's Illumnationist philosophy is the most faithful, called ''al-Shajarah al-Ilahiyyah'' (The Divine Tree).

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For his life and writings, see: * P. Lory, "Shahrazuri" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, ed. by H.A.R. Gibbs, B. Lewis, Ch. Pellat, C. Bosworth et al., 11 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1960-2002), vol. 9, p. 219 *

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, Die Medizin im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Erg?nzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p. 232 *

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, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937-1942) vol. 1, pp 850–1 * Sami Hamarneh, "Arabic Historiography as Related to the Health Professions in Medieval Islam", Sudhoffs Archiv, vol. 50 (1966), pp 2–24, esp. pp 17–18. *

, ''Islamic Medicine'', 2002, Goodword Pub., * Michael Privot, ''Le Kitâb al-rumûz d'al-Shahrazûrî: une oeuvre ishrâqî?'' (PhD Thesi

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