Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī was born on February 18, 1547. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī
Baha al-Din al-Amili (Arabic: بهاء الدين العاملي; Persian: بهاءالدین عاملی: 18 February 1547 – 1 September 1621), commonly known as Sheikh Bahāʾī, was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and polymath in Safavid Iran, who composed various works in Arabic and Persian. Closely tied to the court of Shah Abbas the Great, he became known for his role in the intellectual sphere of Isfahan and is seen as a leading figure in his field, with seventy-seven scholars counted among his students. An ethnic Arab, he was originally from Jabal Amil (present-day south Lebanon) in Ottoman Syria. During his childhood,…