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Abu Yahya Zakariya' ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini () or Zakarya Qazvini (Persian: ) (1203–1283) was an Arab〔(Al-Qazwīnī, Zakariyā Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Maḥmūd, Abū Yaḥyā )." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Apr. 2013 〕〔''Al-Kawini'', T. Lewicki, ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. IV, ed. E. van Donzel, B. Lewis, C. Pellat, (Brill, 1997), 865.〕 or Persian〔''ĀṮĀR AL-BELĀD'', C. E. Bosworth, ''Encyclopaedia Iranica''; "''Ātar Al-Belad: the title of a geographical work composed in Arabic during the 7th/13th century by the Persian scholar Abū Yaḥyā Zakarīyāʾ b. Moḥammad Qazvīnī". (iranicaonline.org )〕〔''Iranian Entomology: An Introduction'', Volume I, ed. Cyrus Abivardi, (Springer, 2001), 495.〕〔Bernard Lewis, ''A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History'', (Random House, 2000), 439.〕 physician, astronomer, geographer and proto-science fiction writer. He belonged to a family of jurists who had long before settled in Qazvin. He was a descendant of the Medina sahabi Anas bin Malik. ==Career== Born in Qazvin, Persia, Zakariya Qazvini served as a legal expert and judge in several localities in Persia and at the city of Baghdad. He travelled around in Mesopotamia and the Levant, and finally entered the circle patronized by the governor of Baghdad, ‘Ata-Malik Juwayni (d. 1283 CE). It was to the latter that Qazvini dedicated his famous cosmography titled "Marvels of Creatures and the Strange Things Existing" (). This treatise, frequently illustrated, was immensely popular and is preserved today in many copies. It was translated into his native Persian language, and later also into Turkish. Qazvini was also well known for his geographical dictionary "Monument of Places and History of God's Bondsmen" (). Both of these treatises reflect extensive reading and learning in a wide range of disciplines. Qazvini also wrote a futuristic proto-science fiction Arabic tale entitled ''Awaj bin Anfaq''〔(Close encounters of the Arab kind ) BBC News, 9 October 2013〕 (), about a man who travelled to Earth from a distant planet.〔Achmed A. W. Khammas, (Science Fiction in Arabic Literature )〕 Qazvini mentioned how alchemists dubbed "swindlers" claimed to have carried out the transmutation of metals into gold; he states: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zakariya al-Qazwini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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