Nasir al-din al-tusi biography channel
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Tus, Khorasan (now Iran)
Kadhimain (near Baghdad now in Iraq)
He made important contributions to astronomy and wrote many commentaries on Greek texts.
Biography
Although usually known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, his proper name was Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi.Nasir al-din al-tusi biography channel
In fact al-Tusi was known by a number of different names during his lifetime such as Muhaqqiq-i Tusi, Khwaja-yi Tusi and Khwaja Nasir.
Al-Tusi was born in Tus, which lies close to Meshed in northeastern Iran high up in the valley of the Kashaf River.
He was born at the beginning of a century which would see conquests across the whole of the Islamic world from close to China in the east to Europe in the west. It was the era when the vast military power of the Mongols would sweep across the vast areas of the Islamic world displ