Key Figures of Islamic Tradition, According to Marshall Hodgson (9)

Later Learned Men, 1300-1506

 

1310, Nasafi, mutakallim, commentator on the ideal form of government

1311, Qutbuddin Shirazi, astronomer associated with NAsiruddin Tusi, perfected Ptolemaic planetary theory

1318, Rashiduddin, vizier, man of letters, sometimes called Persia's greatest historian

1320, Kamaluddin Farsi, astronomer associated with Qutbuddin Shirazi, improved Ibn-al-Haytham's Optics, studied reflection and the rainbow

1321, Nizari, Shii panegyric poet, traveller

1324, Nizamuddin Awliya, Indo-Persian Sufi, principal organizer of the Chisti order

1326, Allama Hilli, mutakallim associated with Nasiruddin Tusi, codifier of Imami Shii doctrine

1328, Amir Khusraw, Indo-Persian Sufi court poet, member of Chisti order, noted for his ghazals and epics

1328, Ibn-Taymiyyah, Hanbali jurisprudent and mutakallim, concerned about orthodoxy and Sufi excesses

1334, Vassaf, courtier, historian who wrote in ornate prose style

1336, Alauddawlah Simnani, Sufi opponent of Ibn al-Arabi and Wujudism

fl. 1350, Ibn-al-Shatir, Damascene astronomer whose lunar model was equivalent to that of Copernicus

1352, Khvaju, court poet to last of Il-khans and to Muzaffarids and Jalayirids

1389, al-Taftazani, Faylasuf, mutakallim, exegist; wrote in Arabic at the court of Timur

1389, Bahauddin Naqshband, Sufi; Naqshbandi order formed around his teaching

1390, Hafiz, poet, master of the ghazal, sometimes called the best of the Persian poets

1406, Ibn-Khaldun, Faylasuf of Andalusian descent, statesman, qadi, writer of universal history

1413, Ali al-Jurjani, mutakallim, contemporary of al-Taftazani

1418, al-Qalqashandi, courtier, writer of encyclopedic adminstrative manual in adab style

1428, Abdulkarim Jili, Sufi analyst, commentator on Ibn-Arabi

1430, Hafiz Abru, Timuri historian and well-travelled geographer

1442, al-Maqrizi, Egyptian historian and encyclopedist

1449, Ulugh-beg, ruler, savant, astronomer; built observatory at Samarqand where some important work was carried out

fl. 1480s, Dawlat Shah, poet, anthologist, biographer of poets

1492, Jami, Sufi and court poet; sometimes called last of the greats

1498, Mirkhvand, court historian

1501, Ali-Sher Nevai, vizier, sometimes called greatest poet of E. Turkish (Chagatay) language; biographer of poets, critic

1502, Davvani, Faylasuf, moralist

1504, Kashifi, preacher, prose moralist

1505, Jalal-al-din Suyuti, polyhistor and encyclopedist

1506, Husayn Bayqara, ruler, poet in Chagatay, patron of Jami, Mirkhvand, Nevai, and the painter Bihzad