Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 9 anchored passages · author page · cited 4 times in 2 works
Naṣīr al-Millah wa-al-Dīn · al-Ṭūsī · the greatest philosopher · the philosopher · الطوسي · الفيلسوف · الفيلسوف نصير الدين الطوسي · علامة العالم · نصير الدين · نصير الدين الطوسي
in the texts
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The thirteenth-century Shi'i philosopher, theologian and astronomer to whom the treatise on the soul's survival after the body's perishing is attributed; the commentator treats him as the greatest philosopher of the seventh Islamic century and as one of the greatest mutakallimun.
and no wonder, for its author is the greatest philosopher the seventh century brought forth, and the brightest firebrand that appeared in a pitch-black darkness.
The greatest philosopher, Naṣīr al-Dīn, composed this treatise for his pupil Muʼayyad al-Dīn, the astronomer and engineer, who assisted him at the observatory of Marāghah.
And the learned Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī has a rational demonstration for the origination of matter and of the bodies configured out of it, one and all:
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The philosopher whose Naqd al-muḥaṣṣal is cited for the philosophers' distinction between souls, which are simple immaterial substances attached to bodies, and spirits, which are bodies compounded of vapours rising from the blood.
the philosophers distinguish between souls and spirits, for souls in their view are simple immaterial substances attached to bodies, whereas spirits are bodies compounded of the vapours and fumes that rise from the blood confined in the veins.