The Origins of the School of Shiraz

Al-Lari adin Al-Kushji was an Ottoman scientist of the 15th century. He worked at the astronomical observatory founded by Mongol ruler Ulek Begg in Samarkant. Like his commentator, a Kushji originally held from further east, in his case central Asia. But unlike Atusi and his fellow philosopher-scientists he had no strong commitment to Aristotelian cosmology. The mathematical astronomer is not presupposing any particular causal account of the heavens.