Traveled to Herat to study with Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥ. al-Rāzī (d. 1365), but was rejected by the scholar who recommended that he study with his student Mubarakshāh, who was known as “the logician” (al-Manṭiqī), in Cairo. Jurjānī’s arrived in Cairo in 1371 after traveling for 6 years and studying with various scholars.He returned to Iran 4 yrs later by way of Constantinopole, then under Byzantine rule. In 1377 he was invited to join the court of the Muẓaffarid ruler Shāh Shujā` (r. 1353-84) in Shiraz. Following Tamerlane’s capture of Shiraz in 1387, Jurjānī was forced to relocate to Tamerlane’s court in Samarqand. [BEA, Dhanani]