- Masoud Kazerouni
Sadid al-Din Muhammad ibn Mas‘ud Kazerouni was a 14th century Persian physician from
Kazerun ,Fars ,Iran . He was a popular commentator on earlier medical writings, and composed a commentary titled "al-Mughni fi sharh al-Mujiz" on the epitome of "The Canon of Medicine " byAvicenna . Numerous copies of this popular commentary are preserved today, including at TheNational Library of Medicine .He also composed a commentary on the materia medica that was part of the "Canon of Medicine" itself and a commentary on the first book of the "Canon of Medicine" which he completed in 1344.
He died in 1357.
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* 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. 50, 54-55
* Manfred Ullmann, Die Medizin im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Ergänzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p. 272
*Carl Brockelmann , "Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur", 1st edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1889-1936). Second edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1943-49). Page references are those of the first edition, with the 2nd edition page numbers given in parentheses. Vol. 2, p. 195 (249)
*Carl Brockelmann , "Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur", Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937-1942). Vol. 2, 262.ee also
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List of Iranian scientists
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