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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274) was a Persian polymath and prolific writer,who built up a huge oeuvre (in excess of 150 works in both Arabic and Persian), covering a large number of fields, including mathematics, geometry, mineralogy, astronomy, medicine, philosophy and theology. He also re-edited and wrote commentaries on Greek and Arabic mathematical works, which became crucial resources in the spread of the Greek sciences in the Muslim world. He was of the Ismaili and subsequently Twelver Shia Islamic belief. The Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) considered Tusi to be the greatest of the later Persian scholars. Daniel L. Newman is Head of the Arabic Studies Department, Professor of Arabic and Course Director of the MA in Arabic-English Translation and Interpreting at the University of Durham, UK.
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