Born Baʿlabakk near Jabal al‐ʿĀmilī, (Lebanon), 18 February 1547
Died Isfahan, Iran, 1 September 1621
Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī, better known in Iran as Shaykh‐i Bahāʾī, was probably the last scholar in the chain of universal and encyclopedic scholars that Islamic civilization was still producing as late as the 16th century. A major figure in the cultural revival of Safavid Iran, he wrote numerous works on astronomy, mathematics, and religious sciences and was one of the very few in the Islamic world to have propounded the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of Copernican discoveries in astronomy.
Bahāʾī's family came from the village of Jubaʿ near the coastal town of Sidon in southern Lebanon, in the vicinity of Jabal ʿĀmil, whence his name. He was still a young boy when his whole family, as part of a wave of Shīʿa scholars, migrated to Iran to escape the persecutions of the Shiite Muslims by the Ottomans.
(The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers)
Кстати, в русскоязычной литературе он более всего известен как математик и астроном (Матвиевская Г. П., Розенфельд Б. А. Математики и астрономы мусульманского средневековья и их труды (VIII—XVII вв.). В 3 т. М.: Наука, 1983).
Ал-Амили составил трактат «Сущность арифметики», «Трактат об арифметических правилах и геометричеких указаниях», трактат «Разъяснение небесных сфер», «Трактат об астролябии», «Трактат об определении киблы», «Трактат об исследовании глобуса», энциклопедический трактат «Чаша дервиша». В трактате «Разъяснение небесных сфер» ал-Амили отметил возможность вращения Земли вокруг оси. По его мнению, она не опровергнута современной ему наукой.