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14th-century Persian/Turkish physician
Aqsara'i آقسرایی
Manuscript of al-Aqsara'i's Hall al-Mujiz. Copy made in Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan), dated June-July 1583
Medical career
Profession
Physician
Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (Persian: جمالالدین محمد بن محمد آقسرایی) (died 1379), also written al-Aqsara'i, was a 14th-century Muslim Iranian physician. He became known as Aqsara'i because he moved to Aqsara region of what is now Turkey.
Al-Aqsara'i studied medicine with his father, under whose tutelage he first read the Mujaz. Thereafter he studied The Canon of Medicine itself, as well as the Hawi by Razi and the Complete Book on Medicine by al-Majusi, as well as the medical writings of Najib al-Din al-Samarqandi. He employed these other treatises in his commentary on the Mujaz, and he titled his commentary "The Key to the Mujaz" (Hall al-Mujaz).
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