Abū Mu ˓īn Nāṣir ibn Khusraw al-Kabādhiyānī was a Persian philosopher, poet, and traveler. Born at al-Kabādhiyān in Transoxania (now in Tajikistan) in 1004, he was one of the founders of Ismā ˓īlī theosophy and lived at Balkh and Ghazna (now in Afghanistan) at the court of the Ghaznavid sultans Maḥmūd and Mas ˓ūd. After the Seljuqid conquest, he lived at Marw at the court of Seljuqid Chaghri Beg. He traveled from the Maghreb to India. In Egypt he became Isma ˓īlī and was made the Isma ˓īlī missionary in Persia and Transoxania. In this he was persecuted and was forced to take shelter in Yomghan in the Pamir mountains (now in Afghanistan). He wrote in both Persian and Arabic.
His main work is the Safar-nāmeh (Book on Travels), the diary of his journeys, containing an account of life in Egypt under the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir (1035–1094) and various geographic, ethnographic, and archaeological information.
In his philosophical treatise, Kitāb zād al-musāfirīn (Book Supply of Travelers...
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Rosenfeld, B.A. (2015). Nāṣir-I Khusraw. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_9276-2
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