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Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī (d. ca 663/1265), was an Iranian philosopher and mathematician, contemporary of the philosopher and polymath Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1273). He composed about twenty works in the fields of philosophy, especially logic, and mathematics, especially astronomy. Considered during his lifetime as a prominent mathematician, he promoted an active appropriation of Greek sciences in Islam. His Kitāb Hidāyat al-ḥikma (“The Book of Guidance for Philosophy”), commonly used in Iran and India as a textbook in philosophical instruction, is a perfect example of the late Peripatetic (mashshā’ī) tradition in Islam. Moreover, by integrating some ideas of Suhrawardī’s (d. 587/1191) “wisdom of illumination”, it prefigures future developments of Eastern Islamic philosophy in fourteenth-to-seventeenth centuries.
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Terrier, M. (2018). Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1151-5_583-1
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