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- Nasir al-Din Tusi and His Socio-Political Role in the Thirteenth Century
Nasir al-Din Tusi and His Socio-Political Role in the Thirteenth Century
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Authors(s): Abbas Ali Shameli
Category: Politics Current Affairs
Journal: Vol.11, N.2, 2010
Publisher(s): Ahlul Bayt World Assembly
Topic Tags: Islamic History Politics Role
Person Tags: Khajah Nasir al-Din Tusi
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In this paper, the author refers to scientific and socio-political role of Khajah Nasir al-Din Tusi in one of the most critical eras of Islamic history and examines some of the controversies that exist about his affiliations.
Nasir al-Din Tusi and His Socio-Political Role in the Thirteenth Century
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Abbas Ali Shameli
Introduction
In the history of human civilization as a whole and in that of Islamic civilization in particular, there have been outstanding figures who played decisive roles in forming or changing various aspects of human life. Some of them are still surrounded by a mass of historical data containing contradictory judgments about them. Since their activities took place many centuries ago, modern scholars are often short of enough information to judge their real impact.
It is difficult to come to a fair conclusion. In the history of Islamic civilization, Khāja Nasir al-Din Tusi (597-1201/672-1274) was a unique scholar, in one of the most crucial periods, whose real role and personality are still obscure. His age was full of such harsh socio-political events in all parts of the Islamic world that some regarded it as the worst period in human history.
The intercontinental Mongol invasion and the collapse of all Islamic powers and states at the same time as the abolishment of Ismāʻili fortresses and the destruction of the Abbasid caliphate created a bloody and
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