Hakim Ali ibn Kamal al-Din Muhammad Gilani ( fa, حكيم علی بن كمال الدين محمد الگيلانی) was a 16th-century Gilak royal physician from Gilan,

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. He came from

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to the Mughal court of Akbar and served under several Mughal rulers in northwest

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. He is particularly known for his commentary on ''

The Canon of Medicine ''The Canon of Medicine'' ( ar, القانون في الطب, italic=yes ''al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb''; fa, قانون در طب, italic=yes, ''Qanun-e dâr Tâb'') is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Persian physician-phi ...

'' by Avicenna. Hakim Ali Gilani died on 14 Dhu al-Hijjah 1017AH, or 22 March 1609.

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For evidence regarding his life, see: *

Carl Brockelmann Carl Brockelmann (17 September 1868 – 6 May 1956) German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, Königsberg. He is best known for his multi-volume ...

, ''Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur'', Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937–1942)., vol. 2, p. 626. * A. Z. Iskandar, ''A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science'' in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967), p. 182.

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