Sayyid Zayn al-Din Isma'il al-Husayni al-Jurjani (Ismail Gorgani) | |
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,_Tashrih_Zakhirah-i_Khwarazmshahi_(%27Treasury_dedicated_to_the_king_of_Khwarazmshahi%27),_an_encyclopaedia_of_medical_science,_vol.I_(on_anatomy),_Persia,_Safavid,_dated_1663.jpg) Manuscript of Jurjani's Tashrih Zakhirah-i Khwarazmshahi, vol. I (on anatomy). Copy created in Safavid Iran, dated 1663 | |
| Personal | |
| Born | c. 1040 |
| Died | c. 1136 (aged 94–95) |
| Religion | Islam |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Main interest(s) | Traditional medicine, Theology, Philosophy and Ethics |
| Notable work(s) | Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi and many others |
| Muslim leader | |
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Zayn al-Din Sayyed Isma‘il ibn Husayn Gorgani (c. 1040–1136),[1] also spelled al-Jurjani, was a Persian[2] 12th century royal Islamic physician from Gorgan, Iran.[1] In addition to medical and pharmaceutical sciences, he was also an adept in theological, philosophic, and ethical sciences.[3] Jurjani was a pupil of Ibn Abi Sadiq and Ahmad ibn Farrokh. He arrived at the court in the Persian province of Khwarazm in the year 1110 when he was already a septuagenarian. There he became a court physician to the governor of the province, Khwarazm-Shah Qutb al-Din Muhammad I, who ruled from 1097 to 1127. It was to him that he dedicated his most comprehensive and influential work, the Persian-language compendium Zakhirah-i Khvarazm'Shahi.
Jurjani continued as court physician to Khwarazm'Shah Qutb al-Din's son and successor, Ala al-Din Atsiz, until at some unspecified time he moved to the city of Merv, the capital of the rival Seljuq Sultan Sanjar (ruled 1118–1157), where he died nearly at 100 lunar years of age.
Jurjani composed a number of important medical and philosophical treatises, in both Persian and Arabic, most of them written after he moved to Khwarazm at the age of 70 lunar years.
- ^ a b Abivardi, Cyrus (2001). Iranian entomology: an introduction. Springer. p. 484. ISBN 978-3-540-67592-1.
- ^ Selin, Helaine (2008). Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures. Berlin New York: Springer. p. 131. ISBN 9781402049606.
Abū˒l-Fadā˒il Ismā˓īl ibn al-H. usayn al-Jurjānī, Zayn al-Dīn, sometimes called Sayyid Ismā˓īl, was the most eminent Persian physician after Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), and the author of the first great medical compilation written in Persian.
- ^ Shams Ardekani, Mohammad Reza (Medical University of Tehran); Moatar, Fariborz (Medical University of Isfahan), A Research Conducted on the Life and Works of Hakim Sayyid Esmail Jurjani.