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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF QUṬB AL-DIN SHĪRĀZĪ (A PERSIAN PHYSICIAN IN 14TH CENTURY AD) IN HIS MANUSCRIPT, AL-TUḤFA AL-SA‘DĪYA
Hamed Arezaei
; Department of Arabic Language and Literature, The School of Foreign Languages, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran.
Arman Zargaran
orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-3861
; Department of History of Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Quṭb al-Din Shīrāzī (1236-1311 AD), the Persian polymath had great contributions to the fields of philosophy, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, music, literature, and Islamic studies. He lived during the Ilkhanid kingdom in Iran. He wrote an autobiography in the preface of his medical manuscript, al-Tuḥfa al-Sa‘dīya. He discussed his views on science and then, he explained his life story, in particular his education and contribution to science. He mentioned the reasons that led him to write al-Tuḥfa al-Sa‘dīya, his main medical work. As a great polymath, he traveled to many countries, and his words cleared the scientific atmosphere of 14th century AD. Also, he directly introduced his teachers and their abilities and works. Furthermore, scientists who worked on the Canon of Medicine had commentaries on this book, which were comprehensively introduced in this autobiography.
Keywords
Persian medicine, History of medicine, Medical biography, Medieval era
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Publication date:
5.10.2021.
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