Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Amuli was a medieval Persian physician from
Amol,
Iran
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.
He wrote an Arabic commentary on the epitome of
Avicenna's ''
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 ...
'' that had been made by
Yusuf al-Ilaqi.
Between 1335 and 1342, Amoli also composed a large and widely read Persian encyclopedia on the classification of knowledge titled (''Nafa'is al-funun fi ‘ara'is al-‘uyun'').
See also
*
List of Iranian scientists
The following is a non-comprehensive list of Iranian scientists, engineers, and scholars who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age. For the modern era, see List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineer ...
Sources
*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. 37, note 11.
*
E. Sachau and H. Ethé, ''Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Part 1: The Persian Manuscripts'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889), col. 909.
For his writings, see:
*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. 52 note 3.
*
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 (597).
*Carl Brockelmann, ''Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplement'', 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937–1942), p. 824.
*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), p. 539.
14th-century births
14th-century deaths
14th-century Iranian mathematicians
14th-century Iranian physicians
People from Amol
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