Hakim-e-Gilani
Persian physician
Hakim Ali ibn Kamal al-Din Muhammad Gilani (Persian: حكيم علی بن كمال الدين محمد الگيلانی) was a 16th-century physician in Mughal India. As indicated by his nisba, he was from Gilan and came from Persia to the Mughal court of Akbar and served under several Mughal rulers in northwest India. He is particularly known for his commentary on The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna.[citation needed]
Hakim Ali Gilani died on 14 Dhu al-Hijjah 1017AH, or 22 March 1609.[citation needed]
Sources
For evidence regarding his life, see:
- Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937–1942)., vol. 2, p. 626.
- 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), p. 182.
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Islamic medicine
- Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah
- The Canon of Medicine
- Tacuinum Sanitatis
- Anatomy Charts of the Arabs
- The Book of Healing
- Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye
- De Gradibus
- Al-Tasrif
- Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi
- Adab al-Tabib
- Kamel al-Sanaat al-Tibbyya
- Al-Hawi
- Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon
- Lives of the Physicians
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