Ghyath al-Din Mansur Dashtaki

Ghiyāth al-Din Mansur Dashtaki (1461-1542) was an Iranian Safavid Islamic philosopher, the son of Sadr ad-Din Dashtaki. He has been called "the foremost philosopher of sixteenth-century Islam".[1]

"His works spanned an impressive range, from theological, mystical, and Quranic studies to treatises on medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and astrology."[1] He wrote Akhlaq-i Mansuri on ethics, a commentary on Suhrawardi's Hayākil al-nūr (Temples of Light), and glosses on Tusi's Sharh al-isharat.[2] He also wrote a medical treatise, Ma’alem-o-Shafa.[3]

References
  1. Stephen P. Blake (2013). Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman Empires. Cambridge University Press. pp. 119–20. ISBN 978-1-107-03023-7.
  2. S. H. Nasr (1986). "Spiritual Movements, Philosophy and Theology in the Safavid Period". In William Bayne Fisher; Peter Jackson; Lawrence Lockhart (eds.). The Cambridge History of Iran. Cambridge University Press. p. 659. ISBN 978-0-521-20094-3.
  3. Ali akbar Jafari, Giasaddin Mansour Dashtaki and his medical textbook: Maalem-o-Shafa, Iranian Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Vol. 4, No. 5 (2011), pp.1-10


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