Ibn Abi Sadiq al-Naishaburi, Abu al-Qasim ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Ali (

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's Questions on Medicine, however, may have been even more popular, judging from the large number of copies preserved today. Ibn Abi Sadiq also wrote a commentary on the Prognostics of Hippocrates, on

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's treatise ''On the Usefulness of the Parts'', and on Razi's treatise Doubts about Galen (''Shukuk ‘alá Jalinus''). According to the medieval biographical sources, he completed the commentary on Galen's ''On the Usefulness of the Parts'' in the year 1068 AD, which provides us with the one firm date in his biography.

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, ''Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur'', Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937–1942). vol. 1, pp. 886–7 * Lutz Richter-Bernburg, ''Iran's Contribution to Medicine and Veterinary Science in Islam AD 100-900/AD 700-1500''", in The Diffusion of Greco-Roman Medicine in the Middle East and the Caucasus, ed. J.A.C. Greppin, E. Savage-Smith, and J.L. Gueriguian (Delmar, New York: Caravan Press, 1999).

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