Keys to the Sciences ("Maqālīd al-ʿulūm"): A Gift for the Muzaffarid Shāh Shujāʿ on the Definitions of Technical Terms

Product Description
Keys to the Sciences (Maqlid al-ulm) contains the definitions of Arabic technical terms in twenty-one sciences. Written by an unknown author, the work was dedicated to Shh Shuj, who reigned Shiraz and its neighbouring region in the 8th/14th century.
About the Author
Gholamreza Dadkhah is Research Scholar (Islamic philosophy), University of Tehran. Among his publications are the edition of Shams al-Din Samarqandi’s (d. 722/1322)
Science of the Cosmos and the Soul (Mazda Publishers, 2014), and together with Asadollah Fallahi,
Logic in Sixth/Twelfth Century Iran (The Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 2018).


Reza Pourjavady, Ph.D. (Freie Universität Berlin, 2008), is Visiting Professor of Islamic History and Culture at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. His publications include
Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran: Najm al-Din Ma?mud al-Nayrizi and His Writings (Brill, 2011), and coauthored with Sabine Schmidtke,
A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad: ?Izz al-Dawla Ibn Kammuna (d. 683/1284) and His Writings (Brill, 2006).