Qadi Husayn Maybudi
{{Short description|Muslim philosopher}}
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| birth_date = 1449
| birth_place = Maybud, Timurid Empire
| death_date = 1504 (aged 55)
| death_place = Maybud, Safavid Iran
| occupation = Scholar and qadi
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Qadi Kamal al-Din Husayn ibn Mu'in al-Din Ali Maybudi ({{langx|fa|قادی کمال الدین حسین بن معین الدین علی میبدی}}), better known as Qadi Husayn Maybudi ({{lang|fa|قادی حسین میبدی}}), was an Iranian scholar and qadi (judge) in the city of Yazd under the Aq Qoyunlu. He was executed in 1504 after having participated in a failed revolt against the Safavid shah (king) Ismail I ({{reign|1501|1524}}).
Biography
Born in 1449,{{sfn|Pourjavady|2011|p=32}} Maybudi was presumably a native of the city of Maybud in southern Iran, rather than the neighbouring city of Yazd.{{sfn|Dunietz|2015|pp=14–15}} The area was then part of the Timurid Empire.{{sfn|Dunietz|2015|pp=19–20}} He belonged to an affluent and influential family of aristocratic origin.{{sfn|Dunietz|2015|pp=1, 26}} He was the son of Khwaja Mu'in al-Din Ali, a prominent philanthropist and vizier of Yazd.{{sfn|Dunietz|2015|pp=26–27}} At a young age, Maybudi left for Shiraz to study under prominent scholars such as Jalal al-Din Davani (died 1503).{{sfn|Dunietz|2015|p=1}} He was executed in 1504 after having participated in a failed revolt against the Safavid shah (king) Ismail I ({{reign|1501|1524}}).{{sfn|Dunietz|2015|pp=1, 163}} He was survived by at least one of his sons, Mirza Abd al-Rashid al-Munajjim.{{sfn|Dunietz|2020}}
His works
- Sharh al-hidayah (famous commentary on Athir al-Din al-Abhari, cf. Browne IV, p. 57: "Maybodi's commentary . . . is still the favourite text-book for beginners in philosophy . . .")
- Sharh-i Divan-i Ali ibn Abi Talib (Commentary on the poem of Ali ibn Abi Talib). The book has been published by Miras-i Maktub; Chap-i 1 edition (2000), Published in 1998, {{ISBN|978-964-6781-39-9}}, {{ISBN|9789645548634}}
- Munsha'at {{ISBN|964-5548-63-2}}
- Jam-i giti-numa
- Sharh al-Kafiyah fi al-Nahw
- Kashf al-asrār waʿuddat al-abrār (The Unveiling of the Secrets and the Provisions of the Righteous), a ten-volume Persian commentary on the Quran
References
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Sources
- {{cite book | title = The Cosmic Perils of Qadi Ḥusayn Maybudī in Fifteenth-Century Iran | year = 2015 | publisher = Brill | location = | editor-last = | editor-first = | last = Dunietz| first = Alexandra | authorlink = | chapter = | pages = | isbn = 978-9004302310 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=h6GXCgAAQBAJ}}
- {{EI3|last=Dunietz|first=Alexandra|title=Maybudī, Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/maybudi-qadi-mir-husayn-COM_36314|year=2020}}
- {{cite book | title = Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran | year = 2011| publisher = Brill | location = | editor-last = | editor-first = | last = Pourjavady | first = Reza | authorlink = | chapter = | pages = | isbn = 978-9004191730 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VGvO3jpy-YcC }}
{{Islamic philosophy}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Qadi Mir Husayn Al-Maybudi}}
Category:15th-century Iranian philosophers
Category:16th-century Iranian philosophers
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:15th-century scholars
Category:16th-century scholars
Category:Rebellions against Safavid Iran
Category:Scholars under the Aq Qoyunlu
Category:People executed by Safavid Iran
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