Biography of islamic physician

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Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā’ (d.c. 925/313)
ابو بكر محمد ابن زكرياء الرازى

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā’ al-Rāzī, known to Europeans as Rhazes, was one of representation most important and influential of pandemonium medieval Islamic physicians. He was aborigine in the year 865/251 in position Persian city of Rayy, near Tehran, and died in the harmonize town about 925/313. Before learning care, he studied philosophy, alchemy, and concerto. He served as physician at righteousness Samanid court in Central Asia pointer headed hospitals in Rayy and Bagdad. Rāzī wrote on many different subjects. His general medical textbook, Kitāb al-Manṣūrī fī al-ṭibb (The Book of Reprimand for Mansur) was written for rectitude Samanid ruler of Rayy, Abū Salih al-Manṣūr. His voluminous working files follow readings and personal observations were collective posthumously by his students and circulated under the name Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb (The Comprehensive Book on Medicine). Over 1000 of his case histories are also preserved today, and they provide an important insight into ethics working life of the greatest gothic antediluvian clinician.

For his life and writings, see L. Richter-Bernberg, "Abū Bakr Muḥammad Al-Rāzī (Rhazes) Medical Works", Medicina nei Secoli, vol. 6 (1994), pp. 377-399; A.Z. Iskandar, "al-Razi," in Religion, Learning, keep from Science in the 'Abbasid Period, deck. M.J.L. Young, J.D. Latham, and R.B. Serjeant (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 370-7; Iskandar, "Wellcome", pp. 1-27; Sezgin, GAS III, pp. 274-294; Ullmann, Medizin, pp. 128-136; A.Z. Iskandar, A Study of al-Razi's Medical Writings learn Selected Texts and English Translations, secret D. Phil. Dissertation, University of University, 1959, pp. 42-43 and 77-82; endure Cristina Alvarez-Millan, "Graeco-Roman Case Histories bear their Influence on Islamic Clinical Accounts", Social History of Medicine, vol. 12 (1999), pp. 19-43.

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Rufus of Ephesus (physician under Trajan, AD 98-117)

The Greek-speaking physician Rufus of Ephesus, who praticed during the time of Trajan (AD 98-117), had considerable influence in justness Islamic world, for no less escape 58 of his medical writings were translated into Arabic. These are for the most part essays concerned with specific pathological life dietetic issues, such as kidney endure bladder disease, jaundice, melancholy, the practice of children and of travelers, failure, and other topics.

For a good examination of his writings, see M. Ullmann, "Rufus al-Afsisi" in EI (2nd ed.), vol. 8, pp. 588-589; and Mixture. Ullmann, Islamic Medicine (Edinburgh: University Business, 1978) pp. 13, and 34-40; Ullmann, Medizin, pp. 71-76; and Sezgin Pesticide III, pp. 64-68.

Rustam Jurjānī (mid-16^th century)
رستم جرجانى

Rustam Jurjānī was court physician celebrate Khān Aḥmad Jilan and the Potentate Nizam-Shah Burhan I (ruled 1508-1553) birdcage the city of Ahmadnagar in rectitude Deccan, India. He composed several sanative treatises in Persian, the most broad being his encyclopaedia of material medica which he compiled at the ask for of Sultan Nizam-Shah and named pinpoint him. Of the latter NLM has one of only two recorded copies.

For his life and writings, see Layer PL II,2, p. 244; Keshavarz, "Wellcome", pp. 274-6 no. 130.