- Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi
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For other uses, see Harawi (disambiguation).
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi (fl. 1492-1518 and died 1542) was a Persian late 15th century physician from Herat, now part of Afghanistan.
In 1518 he composed, in Arabic, an alphabetical medical dictionary and encyclopedia. It covered anatomical and pathological terms and concepts, medicinal substances, and prominent physicians, with all the entries arranged alphabetically. This medical lexicon titled 'Jawahir al-lughah wa-Bahr al-jawahir'[1][2] has three chapters: the first explaining terminology for parts of the body (in alphabetical order), the second on the names of simple and compound drugs (also in alphabetical order), and the third on names of diseases, presented in order from head to toe according to their locations. An autograph copy of Jawahir al-lughah exists in which the author states that he completed the correction of the treatise in 1492 (London, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, MS Arab. 143).[3]
His another work, “Ainul Hayat” is based on Ageing.[4] The original manuscript of Ainul Hayat was scribed in 1532 by the author in Herat. There are 4 copies of this old manuscript reported in various libraries of the world. It is stated that this is the first text on ageing in the world. After collation of these existed 4 copies of the manuscript, Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman edited and translated the manuscript in 2007. In the edited book, one can find how amazingly the author 500 years back discussed all types of behavioral and lifestyle factors including diet, environment and housing conditions related to ageing. He also discussed what drugs could increase and decrease ageing.
References
- ^ A.Z. Iskandar, "Jawahir al-lughah wa-Bahr al-jawahir: mu‘jaman mukhtalifan lil-tabib Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi" [in Arabic], al-Mashriq, 1963, vol. 57, pp. 331–334 and 7 plates
- ^ Manfred Ullmann, Die Medizin im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Ergänzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970). p. 237
- ^ 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. 68–9
- ^ Ainul Hayat. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences. 2007. ISBN 978-81-901362-9-7.
Dr Ashfaq Ahmad of NIIMH Hyderabad has translated Ainul Hayat from Arabic to English in 2010
See also
- List of Iranian scientists
Medicine in the medieval Islamic world Physicians 7th centuryAbu Haftzah Yazid • Bukhtishu • Masarjawaih • Nafi ibn al-Harith • Ibn Abi Ramtha al-Tamimi • Rufaida Al-Aslamia8th century9th centuryAlbubather • Bukhtishu family • Jabril ibn Bukhtishu • Jābir ibn Hayyān • Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his son • Yahya ibn Sarafyun • Al-Kindi • Masawaiyh • Sabur ibn Sahl • Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari • Al-Ruhawi • Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu10th centuryQusta ibn Luqa • Abu ul-Ala Shirazi • Abul Hasan al-Tabari • Al-Natili • Qumri • Abu Zayd al-Balkhi • Isaac Israeli ben Solomon • Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi • Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi • Muvaffak • Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi • Ibn Juljul • Al-Zahrawi • Ibn al-Jazzar • Al-Kaŝkarī • Ibn Abi al-Ashʿath • Ibn al-Batriq • Ibrahim ibn Baks11th centuryAbu Ubaid Juzjani • Alhazen • Ali ibn Ridwan • Avicenna • Ephraim ibn al-Za'faran • Ibn al-Wafid • Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu • Ibn Butlan • Ibn al-Kattani • Ibn Jazla • Masawaih al-Mardini • Yusuf al-Ilaqi • Ibn Al-Thahabi • Ibn Abi Sadiq • ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Kahhal12th centuryAbu al-Bayan ibn al-Mudawwar • Ahmad ibn Farrokh • Ismail Gorgani • Ibn Hubal • Zayn al-Din Gorgani • Maimonides • Serapion the Younger • Ibn Zuhr • Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Israili • Abu Jafar ibn Harun of Trujillo • Averroes • Ibn Tufail • Al-Ghafiqi • Ibn Abi al-Hakam • Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī • Samauʼal Al-Maghribī • Ibn al-Tilmīdh13th centurySa'ad al-Dawla • Al-Shahrazuri • Rashidun al-Suri • Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat • Avraham son of Rambam • Da'ud Abu al-Fadl • Al-Dakhwar • Ibn Abi Usaibia • Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta • Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer) • Ibn al-Nafis • Zakariya al-Qazwini • Najib ad-Din-e-Samarqandi • Qotb al-Din Shirazi • Ibn al-Quff14th century15th centuryAbu Sa'id al-Afif • Muhammad Ali Astarabadi • Husayni Isfahani • Burhan-ud-din Kermani • Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu • Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi • Nurbakhshi • Shaykh Muhammad ibn Thaleb16th centuryHakim-e-Gilani • Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani • Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'rufConcepts Works The Canon of Medicine • Anatomy Charts of the Arabs • The Book of Healing • Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye • De Gradibus • Al-Tasrif • Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi • Adab al-Tabib ("Practical Ethics of the Physician")
Centers Bimaristan • Nur al-Din Bimaristan • Al-'Adudi
Influences Influenced Categories:- Physicians of medieval Islam
- Medieval Persian physicians
- 1542 deaths
- Afghan scientists
- Iranian medical biography stubs
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