Najib ad-Din Samarqandi

Najib ad-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Umar Samarqandi was a 13th-century Persian physician from Samarqand.

Samarqandi died during the Mongol attack on Herat, in Afghanistan, 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 and pathology. The treatises were widely read and often commentaries were written on them.

See also[]

• List of Iranian scientists

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, Erg?nzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p. 170.

External links[]

• Levey, Martin (2008) [1970-80]. "Al-Samarqandī, Najīb Al-Dīn Abū ̣Hāmid Mụhammad Ibn 'Alī Ibn 'umar". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Encyclopedia.com.

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