Najib-ad-din Samarqandi

Najib al-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Umar al-Samarqandi was a 13th century Persian physician from Samarkand.

Samarqandi died during the Mongol attack on Herat, in Persia, in 1222CE. He was a prolific medical writer and expositor of medical ideas, though few details are known of his life.

His most famous book was "The Book of Causes and Symptoms", a comprehensive manual of therapeutics and pathology. The treatises were widely read and often commentaries were written on them.

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*List of Iranian scientists

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For his life and writings, see:

* A. Z. Iskandar, "A Study of al-Samarqandi's Medical Writings", Le Muséon, vol. 85 (1972), pp 451-479; DSB vol. 12, pp 90-91.
* Manfred Ullmann, Die Medizin im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Erg?nzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p. 170.

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