Najib ad-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Umar Samarqandi (, ) was a 13th-century Persian physician from
Samarqand
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.
Samarqandi died during the
Mongol
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attack on
Herat
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, in
Afghanistan
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, in 1222CE. He was a prolific medical writer and expositor of medical ideas, though few details are known of his life.
His most famous book was ''The Book of Causes and Symptoms'', a comprehensive manual of
therapeutics
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As a rule, each therapy has indications an ...
and
pathology
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. The treatises were widely read and often commentaries were written on them.
See also
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List of Iranian scientists
The following is a list of Iranian scientists, engineers, and scholars who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age.
A
* Abdul Qadir Gilani (12th century) theologian and philosopher
* Abu al-Qasim Muqane'i (10th century) ...
Sources
For his life and writings, see:
* A. Z. Iskandar, "A Study of al-Samarqandi's Medical Writings", Le Muséon, vol. 85 (1972), pp 451–479; DSB vol. 12, pp 90–91.
* Manfred Ullmann, ''Die Medizin im Islam'', Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Ergänzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p. 170.
* Juliane Müller, ''Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin Das Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī''. Brill, 2017
Critical edition and German translation
External links
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1222 deaths
Year of birth unknown
13th-century Iranian physicians
People from Samarkand
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