Nur al-Din Muhammad Abd-Allah ibn Hakim ‘Ayn al-Mulk Qurayshi Shirazi was a mid 17th century Persian physician in

Mughal India The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...

. As indicated by his nisba, he was from Shiraz, Iran. He is best known for his large synopsis of "Yunani" or Unani medicine (Greco-Roman medicine as inherited by Islam) and Hindu medicine ( Ayurveda) that was entitled ''Zakhira-i Dara-Shukuhi'' and dedicated to the

Mughal Mughal or Moghul may refer to: Related to the Mughal Empire * Mughal Empire of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries * Mughal dynasty * Mughal emperors * Mughal people, a social group of Central and South Asia * Mughal architecture * Mug ...

emperor

Shah Jahan Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), better known by his regnal name Shah Jahan I (; ), was the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, reigning from January 1628 until July 1658. Under his emperorship, the Mugha ...

's son

Dara Shikuh Dara Shikoh ( fa, ), also known as Dara Shukoh, (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659) was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Dara was designated with the title ''Padshahzada-i-Buzurg Martaba'' ("Prince of High Rank ...

, who ruled as emperor from 1657-9CE. He also composed in 1628 CE a Persian pharmacological dictionary titled ''Alfaz al-adwiyah'' which he had dedicated to Shah Jahan himself, of which the National Library of Medicine has a copy.

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*C.A. Storey, ''Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey.'' Volume II, Part 2: E. Medicine (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1971), pp 255–8 no 439 *Fateme Keshavarz, ''A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine'' (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1986), pp 78–80, no 4. 17th-century Iranian physicians 16th-century births 17th-century deaths 17th-century Iranian writers 17th-century Persian-language writers Iranian emigrants to India Iranian emigrants to the Mughal Empire Traditional medicine in India Unani practitioners Ayurveda Writers about India Physicians from the Mughal Empire {{iran-med-bio-stub

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