Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Amuli was a medieval Persian physician from

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. He wrote an Arabic commentary on the epitome of

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'' that had been made by Yusuf al-Ilaqi. Between 1335 and 1342, Amoli also composed a large and widely read Persian encyclopedia on the classification of knowledge titled (''Nafa'is al-funun fi ‘ara'is al-‘uyun'').

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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), p. 37, note 11. * E. Sachau and H. Ethé, ''Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Part 1: The Persian Manuscripts'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889), col. 909. For his writings, see: *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), p. 52 note 3. *

Carl Brockelmann Carl Brockelmann (17 September 1868 – 6 May 1956) German Semitic studies, Semiticist, was the foremost Orientalism, orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in University of Wrocław, Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, ...

, ''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 (597). *Carl Brockelmann, ''Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplement'', 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937–1942), p. 824. *Fateme Keshavarz, ''A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine'' (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1986), p. 539. 14th-century births 14th-century deaths 14th-century Iranian mathematicians 14th-century Iranian physicians People from Amol {{Iran-scientist-stub

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