(1148-1210)

Philosopher, logician, linguist, medical specialist

 

Biography

 

Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Al-Huseyn, also is known as Fahriddin Razi was born in 1148 in Rey. Because of the poor life and the absence of good knowledge he was spending the whole life searching for ways in the cities in Central Asia and Iran, where he met the famous scientists, poetries, philosophies and others. The majority of his life he spent in the cities of Central Asia like Bukhara, Samarkand and Khorezm. In Bukhara he studied philosophy and an active took part in many scientific disputes. On the house of Khorezmshakh he was working as scientist. He was the smartest between people that time. The last years he spent in Great where he died in 1210.

 

The Main Scientific Works

 

Fahriddin Razi is the author of 146 works in the field of Muslims philosophy. They show both the separated problems and the comments to works of the contemporaries:

 

“The collection of the science”;

 

“The treatise of metaphysics and theology”;

 

“The comments to the book of Ibn Sino “The orders and lessons”” – the questions of poetry and philosophy;

 

“The treatise to achievement the truth”;

 

“The end of the mind”;

 

“The treatise of the soul”;

 

The science of ethics – shows the main questions which were very important in the fields in Medieval times;

 

The most important work is “The Collection of the Science” which is consisted of the main problems in philosophy. Among them there are a lot of useful information about classification.

 

Contribution to the World Science

 

In philosophy: he tried to solve the problems based on the thoughts of al-Kindi, Zakari Razi and Ibn Sino. He makes the goal not only to take the answers for the important and useful questions, but to connect them with the life. He gets the attention to the Muslims sciences. He was the first who translated in his work 61 scientific fields and gets the definition to each of them. For the first he watches the problems in Islam. Then ar-Razi watches the questions in philosophy and natural sciences like ethics, politics and house building. The whole field the author watches in 3 aspects: the outer basics, the importance and difficulties and for researches. Ar-Razi tried to find out more about the science and got more information on it. The separated part in his work is the science of chess, which has not been used in other works yet.

 

Word Recognition

 

His philosophic thoughts made a great role in life and the researches of the other scientists. And his works become the object of research of Russian, Arabian, Uzbek, Iranian and Tajik scientists.