Zakariya al-Qazwini

Abu Yahya Zakariya ' ibn Muhammad al- Qazwini ( ابو یحیی زکریاء بن محمد القزوینی ) (c. 1203, † 1283) was a Persian physician, astronomer, geographer and early science fiction author.

Life

Born in the Persian city of Qazvin as a descendant of Anas ibn Malik served Zakariya ' ibn Muhammad al- Qazwini as a legal expert and judge ( qadi ) in some localities in Persia and Baghdad. He traveled around in Mesopotamia and Syria, before he was finally part of a by the Governor of Baghdad, Ata al -Mulk Dschuwaini (1283 died ), funded society circle.

That Qazwini dedicated his famous, written in the Arabic language cosmography titled Aja'ib al - makhlūqāt wa - al - gharā'ib mawjūdāt ( عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب ​​الموجودات /, wonders of the living creatures and strange things '). This treatise, frequently illustrated, was very widespread and has been preserved in many copies today. It was translated into Persian and Turkish.

Qazwini is also known for his gazetteer Athar al - Bilād wa - akhbar al-' Ibad ( آثار البلاد وأخبار العباد /, Monument of Places and History of the serfs of God '). Both treatises reflect extensive erudition and knowledge reflected from a wide number of disciplines. Furthermore Qazwini wrote a futuristic pre- science fiction tale in Arabic, which is entitled Awaj Anfaq 'm wearing and where it 's about a man who travels from a distant planet to Earth.

Also mentioned Qazwini such as " crook" designated Alchemists of the transformation of metals reported in gold, what Qazwini notes that they have ruined the development of chemistry as a science, because they had cheated powerful rulers such as Imad ad-Din Zangi. As a result, many scholars have spoken out against alchemy, which resulted in a general shift away from alchemy and the isolation of chemical science.

Swell

  • T. Lewick, ' Kazwini ' in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, ed. of H.A.R. Gibbs, B. Lewis, Ch Pellat, C. Bosworth et al, 11 volumes. (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1960-2002 ), volume 4, pp. 865-867.
  • L. Richter -Bernburg, 'al- Qazwini, Zakariyya ' ibn Muhammad ', in Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, ed. by Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey ( London: Routledge, 1998), Volume 2, pp. 637-638.

Works

  • Qazwinis cosmography was by Ferdinand desert field under the title al - Aja'ib makhluqat (Göttingen, 1849) in Arabic and Alma Giese as a German translation under the title Al- Qazwini, the wonders of the heavens and the earth (Stuttgart / Vienna, 1986) herazsgegeben.
  • Qazwinis gazetteer was edited by desert field under the title " Athar al - bilad " (Göttingen, 1848).
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