Nāsir-i Chusrau
Nāsir-i Chusrau , also Nasser Chosrau ( Persian ناصرخسرو, DMG Nāṣir-i Ḫusrau ; * 1004 in Kubodijon (Qubāḏiyān) in today's Tajikistan ; † interlocutory 1072 and 1078 in Jamgan (Yumgān) today Hazrat-e Sayyed / Sa'īd in Afghan Badakhshan , whose full name Abu Mu'in Nasir ibn Ḫusrau ibn Harith al-Qubāḏiyānī), was a Persian traveler, poet and Isma'ili missionary ( da'i ) and philosopher .
Nāsir-i Chusrau studied - possibly in the Madrasa Chodscha Mahschad near his birthplace - especially the Koran exegesis , mathematics, Greek philosophy, astronomy and geography. He held an office at the Court of Justice of the Seljuq Empire. In 1046 he began his 19,000 km long, seven-year journey through the Islamic world from Merw , during which he visited many cities from Iran to Sudan . He later reported on their colleges, caravanserais , histories, geographers and demographics in his travelogue Safarnāmeh . In Egypt , Nāsir-i Chusrau met the caliph al-Mustansir from the Fatimid dynasty (ruled 1035-1085) and gained some prestige.
His collection of poems ( Dīwān ) consists of over 15,000 lines, mostly in the form of Qasids . In the Pamir Mountains he is venerated by the Ismailis as a saint and founder of their faith in the region. Several shrines are dedicated to him in Badachshan , Tajikistan . The modest resting place of the great writer on a rock has been preserved to this day in the place where he died in Afghanistan.
Works
- Divān (collection of odes and short poems)
- Zād al-musāfirīn ("food of travelers", examines the positions of classical philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle and argues against some of the views of early Islamic philosophy)
- Vajh-i Dīn ("The Face of Religion", a representation of Islamic beliefs and practices)
expenditure
- Safari name. A travelogue from the Orient of the 11th century. Diederichs, Munich 1993, ISBN 3424011959
- Manfred Mayrhofer; Nosratollah Rastegar; Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna). Commission for Iranian Studies; Austrian Orient Society Hammer-Purgstall .: Safarnāme: the travel diary of the Persian poet Nāṣir-i Ḫusrau Graz: Leykam, 1993, ISBN 3701100101
Web links
- Literature by and about Nāsir-i Chusrau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alice C. Hunsberger: Nasir Khusraw (1004-1060). In: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
- a picture of the grave
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nāsir-i Chusrau |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abū Muʿīn Nāṣir ibn Ḫusrau ibn Ḥāriṯ al-Qubāḏiyānī; Nāser Khosrow; ناصرخسرو (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Persian traveler, theologian, poet and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1004 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Qubāḏiyān (today: Chatlon , Tajikistan ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1072 and 1078 |
| Place of death | Yumgān (today: Badachschan , Afghanistan ) |