Muhammad ibn Thalib ibn Abd Allah ibn Ni`mat Allah ibn Sadr ad-Din ibn Shaykh Baha' ad-Din ash-Shirazi ( ar, محمد ابن طالب عبدالله ابن نعمات الله ابن صدر الدين ابن شيخ بهاءالدين الشيرازي) was a 15th-century
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physician
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from
Shiraz
Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...
,
Iran
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.
Muhammad ibn Thalib ash-Shirazi is known only by his extensive
Arabic
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manual on
diseases and "tested remedies" (mujarrabat). He composed it for an otherwise unknown person named al-Hasan ibn Abi Yahya ibn Barakat, whose name is mentioned in the title, which translates as "Useful Information for Hasan on Tested Medical Remedies". Only two copies are known, one at The
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, and one in
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; the latter was copied in 1715, and therefore the author must have lived prior to that time.
[D.M. Schullian and F.E. Sommer, A Catalogue of Incunabula and Manuscripts in the Army Medical Library (New York: Henry Schuman, ]950
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Byzantine Empire
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, entry A10, p. 300)
Sommer states that Muhammad ibn Thalib Shirazi died in 1467.
See also
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List of Iranian scientists
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15th-century Iranian physicians
1467 deaths
Year of birth unknown
People from Shiraz
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