Abu Ahmad 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Ali ibn Marzuban Tabib Marzubani, better simply known as Ibn Marzuban (), was a

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official and physician who served the

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. He was a disciple of

Avicenna Ibn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian peoples, Iranian ...

. Not much is known about him; he traced his descent back to a family native to

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. However, during the most of his lifetime he lived in

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and in

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instead of his native city. During his early life, he was educated in science and religious law. He later became the judge of

Shushtar Shushtar () is a city in the Central District of Shushtar County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Shushtar is an ancient fortress city, approximately from Ahvaz, the centre of the province ...

and the head of the famous

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in Baghdad. Ibn Marzuban later died in 1006 at Shushtar.

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* Scholars under the Buyid dynasty 11th-century Iranian physicians 10th-century Iranian physicians 1006 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Iran-med-bio-stub