Qiwam al-Din Muhammad al-Hasani was a
Persian physician of the late 17th century. Hasani was a scholar who is known to have been working in the city of
Qazvin in Persia in the year 1694 CE. The
National Library of Medicine has in its collections a rare copy of a collection of five Arabic poems concerned with
medicine,
astronomy,
arithmetic
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,
calligraphy
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, and proper conduct. These five poems were collectively titled ''al-Khamsah al-Qazwiniyah'' (The Five Qazwini works). The copy at NLM was copied by a professional scribe for the author, whose stamps are in the volume, next to a statement that he corrected the volume in the year 1719–1720 CE. Thus we learn from this volume that Qiwan al-Din Muhammad al-Hasani was still working by 1719 CE.
See also
*
List of Iranian scientists
Sources
* C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937–1942), vol. 1 p. 826 and vol. 2 p. 592.
17th-century Iranian physicians
18th-century Iranian physicians
17th-century Arabic-language poets
17th-century deaths
18th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
17th-century writers from Safavid Iran
Iranian Arabic-language poets
Poets of the medieval Islamic world
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