Awḥad al-Dīn al-Rāzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Pourjavady, Nasrollah
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Awḥad al-Dīn al-Rāzī (seventh/thirteenth century) was a philosopher-mystic, physician, and Persian poet. His exact dates are unknown, but he was a contemporary of the famous philosopher and scientist Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1274) and a protégé of the powerful vizier Shams al-Dīn al-Juwaynī (executed in 683/1284), to whom he dedicated his Persian philosophical-mystical treatise Ḥakīm-nāma or Ijtimāʿ-i ʿallāma . Rāzī wrote this treatise in a combination of prose and poetry and in the form of a dialogue between