Background
He was born near Astarabad and became a professor in Shiraz.
He was born near Astarabad and became a professor in Shiraz.
When this city was plundered by Timur (1387) he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death. Of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the Taʿrīfāt (تعريفات "Definitions"), which was edited by G Flügel (Leipzig, 1845), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, etc), and Street St. Petersburg (1897).