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  "ar": "قطب الدين الشيرازي",
  "en": "Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi",
  "ur": "قطب الدین شیرازی"
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  "ar": "قطب الدين محمود بن ضياء الدين مسعود بن مصلح الشيرازي (أكتوبر 1236 – 1311)، عالم فارسي موسوعي برع في الفلك والرياضيات والطب والفلسفة ونظرية الموسيقى والتصوف. نشأ في أسرة كازرونية من الأطباء والمتصوفة، فألبسه أبوه خرقة التصوف وهو في العاشرة، وخلف أباه طبيبًا للعيون في مستشفى شيراز المظفري، ثم رحل إلى مراغة فتتلمذ على نصير الدين الطوسي وعمل في مرصدها. وطاف خراسان والعراق والأناضول والشام ومصر، وتولى القضاء في سيواس وملطية، وألف «نهاية الإدراك» و«التحفة الشاهية» و«درة التاج»، وتوفي بتبريز ودُفن في مقبرة چرنداب.",
  "en": "Qutb al-Din Mahmud ibn Ziya al-Din Mas'ud ibn Muslih al-Shirazi (October 1236 - 1311) was a Persian polymath who contributed to astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism. He came from a Kazeruni family of physicians and Sufis: his father gave him the Sufi khirqa at the age of ten, and he succeeded his father as ophthalmologist at Shiraz's Mozaffari hospital before travelling to Maragha, where he studied under Nasir al-Din al-Tusi at the new observatory. He later served as judge of Sivas and Malatya, went as envoy to Mamluk Egypt, and wrote the Nihayat al-idrak, al-Tuhfa al-Shahiya and the encyclopaedic Durrat al-taj. He died at Tabriz and was buried in its Charandab cemetery.",
  "ur": "قطب الدین محمود بن ضیاء الدین مسعود بن مصلح شیرازی (اکتوبر 1236ء – 1311ء) فارسی عالم تھے جنھوں نے فلکیات، ریاضی، طب، طبیعیات، نظریہ موسیقی، فلسفہ اور تصوف میں کام کیا۔ وہ کازرون کے ایک صوفی خاندان سے تعلق رکھتے تھے؛ والد نے دس برس کی عمر میں انھیں خرقہ عطا کیا۔ مراغہ جا کر وہ نصیر الدین طوسی کے شاگرد ہوئے، بعد میں سیواس و ملطیہ کے قاضی رہے، اور «نہایۃ الادراک» و «درۃ التاج» جیسی کتابیں لکھیں۔ وفات تبریز میں ہوئی۔"
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   "edtf": "1236-10",
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   "note": "The English and Arabic articles both give October 1236, and October 1236 falls wholly within 634 AH. The birthplace is contested: the English article, following the Encyclopaedia Iranica, gives Shiraz, where his father practised and taught at the Mozaffari hospital; the Arabic and Urdu articles give Kazerun, his family's town of origin, whose name the family bears. Shiraz is followed for the born_in edge and the Kazerun reading is preserved here; no place entity exists for Kazerun on main.",
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   "edtf": "1311",
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   "note": "The English article gives 1311 and places his death at Tabriz, where he was buried in the Charandab cemetery; the Arabic article dates his death to 710 AH (1311). The Gregorian year 1311 spans 710-711 AH, so the Arabic article's quoted 710 AH is preserved here rather than built as the Hijri year.",
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   "note": "The English and Arabic articles both give October 1236, and October 1236 falls wholly within 634 AH. The birthplace is contested: the English article, following the Encyclopaedia Iranica, gives Shiraz, where his father practised and taught at the Mozaffari hospital; the Arabic and Urdu articles give Kazerun, his family's town of origin, whose name the family bears. Shiraz is followed for the born_in edge and the Kazerun reading is preserved here; no place entity exists for Kazerun on main.",
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   "note": "The English article gives 1311 and places his death at Tabriz, where he was buried in the Charandab cemetery; the Arabic article dates his death to 710 AH (1311). The Gregorian year 1311 spans 710-711 AH, so the Arabic article's quoted 710 AH is preserved here rather than built as the Hijri year.",
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    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "قطب الدين محمود بن ضياء الدين مسعود بن مصلح الشيرازي (أكتوبر 1236 – 1311) عالم فارسي موسوعي له إسهامات في الفلك والرياضيات والطب والفيزياء ونظرية الموسيقى والفلسفة والتصوف. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} ينتمي إلى أسرة كازرونية عُرفت بالأطباء؛ بدأ الطب على يد أبيه في مستشفى شيراز المظفري وخلفه فيه طبيبًا للعيون، ثم ترك الطب للدرس ورحل إلى مراغة فعمل في مرصد نصير الدين الطوسي. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} وتولى بعد ذلك قضاء سيواس وملطية، وبُعث سنة 1282 رسولًا من الإلخان أحمد تكودار إلى السلطان المملوكي قلاوون، ودرّس في الشام، وتوفي بتبريز. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الخرقة وتصوفه",
     "markdown": "كان أبوه ضياء الدين قد تلقى الخرقة، رداء الإلباس الصوفي، من شهاب الدين عمر السهروردي، فألبسها ابنه مباركةً وهو في العاشرة، ثم تلقى قطب الدين خرقته الخاصة من الصوفي نجيب الدين بوزگوش الشيرازي. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} وتنص المقالة العربية كذلك على أنه وُلد لعائلة صوفية وأن أباه ألبسه الخرقة في العاشرة، وتسمّي المقالة الأردية سلسلة أبيه: الكازرونية. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ur} وإلباس مثبت كهذا في ثلاثة نصوص مستقلة يثبت انتماءه الصوفي في سجله؛ ولا تسمّي النصوص المقروءة مذهبًا فقهيًا له، وشرحه على كتاب في أصول الفقه المالكي علم على كتاب لا مذهب مثبت للرجل. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ولادته وتتلمذه على الطوسي ووفاته",
     "markdown": "تجعل المقالة الإنجليزية، تبعًا للموسوعة الإيرانية، ولادته في أكتوبر 1236 بشيراز؛ وتجعلها المقالتان العربية والأردية في كازرون، مدينة أسرته الأصلية، وقد حُفظ هذا الخلاف في سجله ولم يُحسم بصمت. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ur} وفي مراغة درس «الإشارات» لابن سينا وعلم الفلك على نصير الدين الطوسي، وشاركه إتمام الجداول الفلكية الجديدة. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} وتوفي بتبريز سنة 1311 — وهي 710 هـ في المقالة العربية — ودُفن في مقبرة چرنداب بالمدينة. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} {cite:wikidata-qutb-al-din-shirazi}"
    }
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    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Qutb al-Din Mahmud ibn Ziya al-Din Mas'ud ibn Muslih al-Shirazi (October 1236 - 1311) was a Persian polymath who made contributions to astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} He belonged to the Kazeruni family, distinguished for its physicians; he began medicine under his father at Shiraz's Mozaffari hospital, succeeded him there as ophthalmologist, then left medicine for study and travelled to Maragha, where he worked at Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's new observatory. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} Later he served as judge of Sivas and Malatya, went as the Ilkhan Ahmad Takudar's envoy to the Mamluk sultan Qalawun in 1282, taught in Syria, and died at Tabriz. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The khirqa and his Sufism",
     "markdown": "His father Ziya al-Din had received the khirqa, the Sufi investiture robe, from Shihab al-Din Umar al-Suhrawardi, and garbed his son with it as a blessing when the boy was ten; Qutb al-Din later received his own robe from the Sufi Najib al-Din Bozgush Shirazi. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} The Arabic article likewise states that he was born into a Sufi family and that his father gave him the khirqa at ten, and the Urdu article names the father's affiliation, the Kazeruniyya order, and repeats the investiture. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ur} Attested initiation of this kind, in three independent texts, settles his recorded affiliation as Sufi; no legal school is named for him in any text read, and his commentary on a Maliki textbook of legal theory is scholarship on a book, not a school attested for the man. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Birth, study under al-Tusi, and death",
     "markdown": "The English article, following the Encyclopaedia Iranica, gives his birth in October 1236 at Shiraz; the Arabic and Urdu articles give Kazerun, his family's town of origin, and the variant is preserved in his record rather than silently resolved. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ur} At Maragha he studied Avicenna's al-Isharat and astronomy under Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, with whom he worked on completing the new astronomical tables. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} He died at Tabriz in 1311 — 710 AH in the Arabic article — and was buried in the city's Charandab cemetery. {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} {cite:wikidata-qutb-al-din-shirazi}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "قطب الدین محمود بن ضیاء الدین مسعود بن مصلح شیرازی (اکتوبر 1236ء – 1311ء) فارسی عالم تھے جنھوں نے فلکیات، ریاضی، طب، طبیعیات، نظریہ موسیقی، فلسفہ اور تصوف میں کام کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} وہ کازرون کے اس خاندان سے تعلق رکھتے تھے جو طبیبوں کے لیے مشہور تھا؛ شیراز کے مظفری اسپتال میں والد سے طب سیکھی اور ان کے بعد وہاں ماہر چشم بنے، پھر مراغہ جا کر نصیر الدین طوسی کی نئی رصد گاہ میں کام کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} بعد میں وہ سیواس و ملطیہ کے قاضی رہے، 1282ء میں ایل خان احمد تکودار کے سفیر بن کر مملوک سلطان قلاوون کے پاس گئے، اور وفات تبریز میں ہوئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "خرقہ اور ان کا تصوف",
     "markdown": "ان کے والد ضیا الدین کو خرقہ — صوفیانہ خلعت — شہاب الدین عمر سہروردی نے عطا کیا تھا، اور انھوں نے دس برس کی عمر میں بیٹے کو بطور برکت یہ خرقہ پہنایا؛ بعد میں قطب الدین نے اپنی خرقہ صوفی نجیب الدین بوزگوش شیرازی سے بھی حاصل کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} عربی مضمون بھی لکھتا ہے کہ وہ صوفی خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے اور والد نے دس برس کی عمر میں انھیں خرقہ دیا، اور اردو مضمون والد کا سلسلہ «کازرونیہ» بتاتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ur} تین آزاد متنوں میں ثابت یہی بیعت و خلعت ان کا صوفی انتماء طے کرتی ہے؛ کسی متن میں ان کے لیے کوئی فقہی مذہب نہیں بتایا گیا، اور مالکی اصول کی کتاب پر ان کی شرح کسی کتاب پر علمی کام ہے، ان کا اپنا مذہب نہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ولادت، طوسی کی شاگردی اور وفات",
     "markdown": "انگریزی مضمون انسائیکلوپیڈیا ایرانیکا کے مطابق ان کی ولادت اکتوبر 1236ء شیراز میں بتاتا ہے؛ عربی اور اردو مضامین جائے پیدائش کازرون بتاتے ہیں، جو ان کے خاندان کا آبائی شہر تھا، اور یہ اختلاف ان کے ریکارڈ میں محفوظ رکھا گیا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ur} مراغہ میں انھوں نے نصیر الدین طوسی سے ابن سینا کی «الاشارات» اور علم ہیئت پڑھا اور نئی فلکیاتی جداول کی تکمیل میں ان کے شریک رہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} وفات 1311ء میں تبریز میں ہوئی — عربی مضمون کے مطابق 710ھ — اور وہ شہر کے چرنداب قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-en} {cite:wikipedia-qutb-al-din-shirazi-ar} {cite:wikidata-qutb-al-din-shirazi}"
    }
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