Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī (Author)
Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī was a Persian philosopher and scholar who was a member of the Shāfiʿī school of law. Born in 600/1204 in Qazvin, al-Kātibī’s most famous work aside from The Rules of Logic is Philosophy of the Source, a text about physics and metaphysics.
Tony Street is Assistant Director of Research in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity and is a Fellow of Clare Hall.