Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftāzānī

PERSON

Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftāzānī

Name (arabic)	سعد الدين مسعود بن عمر التفتازاني
Name (translit)	Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftāzānī
Alias	Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī سعد الدين التفتزاني Taftāzānī
Born	1322 CE/ 0722 AH
Flourished
Died	1390 CE/ 0793 AH
Born in	Taftāzān
Lived in	Iran Samarqand Herat Shiraz
Died in	Samarqand
Grandparent of	Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftazānī
Student of	Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī ʿAḍud al-Dīn ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī
Notes	From MAMS2: worked in Herat; Gijduwan near Bukhara; the court of Khan Jani-Beg (1331-1357) at the Golden Horde Saray; in Shiraz at the court of Shah-Shujaʿ al-Muḥammad (1357-1384); and in Samarkand at the court of Timur (1370-1405). Famous theologian and author of works on logic and mathematics.
Number in MAMS	772
ismi_id	8727

Authored Works

3 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

al-Mukhtaṣar sharḥ talkhīṣ al-miftāḥ , المختصر شرح تلخيص المفتاح

Sharḥ al-risālah al-Shamsīyah , شرح الرسالة الشمسية

Mathematics: General

Risālah fī zawāyā al-muthallath , رسالة في زوايا المثلّث

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