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al-Kātibī, Naǧm al-Dīn ʻAlī b. ʻUmar al-Qazwīnī الكاتبي، نجم الدين علي بن عمر القزويني

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    Or 693 H

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Persian Islamic philosopher and logician of the Šāfiʻī school. His most important works are a treatise on logic, Al-Risāla al-Šamsiyya, and one on metaphysics and the natural sciences, Ḥikmat al-ʻayn. He was involved in the establishment of the Maragha observatory.

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