Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Ali al-Astarabadi was a 15th-century Persian physician from
Astarabad
Gorgan ( fa, گرگان ; also romanized as ''Gorgān'', ''Gurgān'', and ''Gurgan''), formerly Esterabad ( ; also romanized as ''Astarābād'', ''Asterabad'', and ''Esterābād''), is the capital city of Golestan Province, Iran. It lies app ...
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Golestan,
Persia
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Decline of Muslim States and Societies: The Real Root Causes and What Can Be ...
page : 267 : "Hussain al-Astarabadi of Golestan, Persia, wrote a commentary on Jaghmini's Qanunshah"
In 1427, he wrote his well-known commentary on Jaghmini's summary of ''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 ...
'' of Avicenna. Astarabadi dedicated it to Prince Murtada.
Little else is known of his life.
See also
*List of Iranian scientists
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Sources
For information on his only known treatise, 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'', 1st edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1889–1936). Second edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1943–49). Page references will be to those of the first edition, with the 2nd edition page numbers given in parentheses. vol. 1, p. 457 (598)
*Carl Brockelmann, ''Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur'', Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937–1942), vol. 1, p. 826.
*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), pp. 56–57 and 184.
*A.Z. Iskandar, ''A Descriptive List of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles'' (Leiden: Brill, 1984), p. 73.
References
Founder of the Horufi sect.
15th-century Iranian physicians
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
People from Gorgan
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