Philosopher
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
Overview
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (Arabic: فخر الدين الرازي) or Fakhruddin Razi (Persian: فخر الدين رازی) (1149 or 1150 – 1209), often known by the sobriquet Sultan of the Theologians, was an Islamic polymath, scientist, one of the pioneers of inductive logic and author of Tafsir al-Kabir. He wrote various works in the fields of medicine, chemistry, physics, astronomy, cosmology, literature, theology, ontology, philosophy, history and jurisprudence. He was one of the earliest proponents of the concept of multiverse, and compared it with the astronomical teachings of the Quran. A rejector of the geocentric model and the Aristotelian notions of a single universe revolving around a single world, al-Razi argued about the existence of the outer space beyond the known world.
Al-Razi was born in Ray, Iran, and died in Herat, Afghanistan. He left a very rich corpus of philosophical and theological works that reveals influence from the works of Avicenna, Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī and al-Ghazali.
Two of his works titled Mabāhith al-mashriqiyya fī 'ilm al-ilāhiyyāt wa-'l-tabi'iyyāt المباحث المشرقية في علم الإلهيات و الطبيعيات (Eastern Studies in Metaphysics and Physics) and al-Matālib al-'Aliya المطالب العالية (The Higher Issues) are usually regarded as his most important philosophical works.
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Philosophers who discussed Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- Avicenna
- Abu Bakr al-Razi
- Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi
Ideas Fakhr al-Din al-Razi discusses
- History
- Avicenna
- Philosophy
- Iran
- Al-Ghazali
- Avicennism
- Jurisprudence
- Islamic philosophy
- Mu'tazilism
- Ash'arism
- Cosmology
- Muhammad
- Medicine
- Literature
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Mecca
- Ontology
- Physics
- Kalam
- Polymath
- Rhetoric
- Scientist
- Sufism
- Sunni Islam
Place in the tradition
Part of Cosmology.