NIZAM AL-DIN HASSAN BIN HUSAYN QUMI NISHAPURI KNOWN AS NIZAM-I A'RAJ (FL. 1311 AD): A COMMENTARY ON TUSI’S AL-TADHKIRAH FI 'ILM AL-HAY'A

The colophon states that this work was compiled by Nizam al-Din al-Nishapuri in AH 711/1311-12 AD. Al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin al-Husayn al-Qumi al-Nishapuri was a mathematician and philosopher, originally from Qom but who resided in Nishapur. He wrote religious works, including a commentary on the Qur'an as well as scientific works such as a commentary on Tusi's treatise on the Almagest, Ta'bir al-tahrir (Al-Zarkaly, 2007, vol. 2, p.216). After moving to the Ilkhanid capital of Tabriz, he studied at the Ilkhanid observatory of Maragha, under Qutb al-Din Shirazi, himself a student of Nasir al-Din Tusi.

Other copies of this work are in Bombay, Istanbul, London, Mashhad, Najaf, Paris, Rampur, St. Petersburg, Tabriz and Tehran, see Rosenfeld & Ihsanoglu, 2003, p. 238, no.686. For more about Qutb-al-Din al-Shirazi (1236-1311). See C. Brockelmann, GAL, II, 256, Suppl.II, 273. A copy of another of his works, Kashf haqa'iq zij al-ilkhani, also a commentary on Tusi and dated 1432, sold at Christie's, South Kensington, 18 April 2016, lot 164.