Najib al-Din al-Samarqandi
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Najib al-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Umar al-Samarqandi was a 13th century Persian physician from Samarkand.
Samarqandi died during the Mongol attach on Herat, in Persia, 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.
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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.
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