Al-Qumri

Abu Mansur al-Hasan ibn Nuh al-Qumri (Arabic: أبو منصور الحسن بن نوح القمري) was a Persian physician of the 10th century who lived in Khorasan. Qumri was the teacher of Avicenna. He was court physician to the Samanid prince al-Mansur, to whom he dedicated the only treatise by him that is preserved: the "Kitab al-Ghina wa-al-muna" (The Book of Wealth and Wishes), which was also known as "al-Shamsiyah al-mansuriyah" (The Mansurian Sunshade) after its dedicatee. Little else in known of his life except that he died shortly after 990.

ee also

*List of Iranian scientists

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For al-Qumri's life and compositions, see:

*Manfred Ullmann, Die Medizin im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Erg?nzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), pp. 147 and 236
*Fuat Sezgin, Medizin-Pharmazie-Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca 430 H., Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Band 3 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p. 319.