Baha' ad-Din al-'Amili

(1547-1621)

Iranian Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet

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Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī (Arabic: بهاء الدين العاملي; Persian: شیخ بهایی; 18 February 1547 – 1 September 1621), also known as Bahāddīn ʿĀmilī, or just Sheikh Bahāʾi, was a Levantine Arab Shia Islamic scholar, poet, philosopher, architect, mathematician and astronomer, who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Safavid Iran. He was born in Baalbek, Ottoman Syria (present-day Lebanon) but immigrated in his childhood to Safavid Iran with the rest of his family. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. He is considered one of the main co-founders of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy. In later years he became one of the teachers of Mulla Sadra.

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Born	1 February 1547 Baalbek near Jabal ʿĀmil, Ottoman Empire (present-day Lebanon)
Died	30 August 1621 (aged 74) Isfahan, Safavid Empire (present-day Iran)
Zodiac	Aquarius
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