Rostam Gorgani was a mid-16th century

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who lived in

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. Rostam Gorgani was the

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of two of the rulers of the

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, Malik Ahmad Shah I (1490–1510) and Burhan Shah I (1510–1553), in the city of Ahmadnagar in the

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. His name indicates he was from

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, Golestan,

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. He composed several medical treatises in

, the most extensive being the ''Zakhirai-Nizamshahi'' (Supplies of Nizamshah), his

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of material medica which he compiled at the request of Sultan Nizam-Shah and named after him. Only two copies survive, one at the Manuscript Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, and the other at the

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of the

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References

*C.A. Storey, ''Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey''. Volume II, Part 2: E.Medicine (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1971), p. 244 *Fateme Keshavarz, ''A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine'' (London:

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, 1986), pp 274–6 no 130. 16th-century Iranian physicians 16th-century Persian-language writers People from Gorgan Iranian emigrants Writers about India People from the Ahmadnagar Sultanate {{iran-med-bio-stub

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