Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
( fa, جمالالدین محمد بن محمد آقسرایی) (died 1379), also written al-Aqsara'i, was a 14th-century Muslim
Iranian
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physician. He became known as Aqsara'i because he moved to
Aqsara region of what is now
Turkey
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.
He is known for his commentary on the
Mujaz, which was an epitome made in the 13th century by
Ibn al-Nafis of ''
The Canon of Medicine
''The Canon of Medicine'' ( ar, القانون في الطب, italic=yes ''al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb''; fa, قانون در طب, italic=yes, ''Qanun-e dâr Tâb'') is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Persian physician-phi ...
'' of
Avicenna.
Al-Aqsara'i studied medicine with his father, under whose tutelage he first read the Mujaz. Thereafter he studied ''The Canon of Medicine'' itself, as well as the ''Hawi'' by
Razi and the ''Complete Book on Medicine'' by
al-Majusi
'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi ( fa, علی بن عباس مجوسی; died between 982 and 994), also known as Masoudi, or Latinized as Haly Abbas, was a Persian physician and psychologist from the Islamic Golden Age, most famous for the '' Kita ...
, as well as the medical writings of
Najib al-Din al-Samarqandi. He employed these other treatises in his commentary on the Mujaz, and he titled his commentary "The Key to the
Mujaz" (''Hall al-Mujaz'').
He died in 1379.
See also
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List of Iranian scientists
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References
Further reading
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Carl Brockelmann
Carl Brockelmann (17 September 1868 – 6 May 1956) German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, Königsberg. He is best known for his multi-volume ...
, ''Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur'', 1st edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1889-1936). Second edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1943–49). Page references will be to those of the first edition, with the 2nd edition page numbers given in parentheses. vol. 1, p. 457 (598)
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A. Z. Iskandar, A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967), pp. 55 and 100–103.
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A.Z. Iskandar, A Descriptive List of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (Leiden: Brill, 1984), p. 44.
14th-century Iranian physicians
1379 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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