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Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli

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Name
  
Muhammad Mahmud

Role
  
Physician

Died
  
1352


Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Amuli was a medieval Persian physician from Amol, Iran.

He wrote an Arabic commentary on the epitome of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine that had been made by Yusuf al-Ilaqi.

Between 1335 and 1342, Amoli also composed a large and widely read Persian encyclopedia on the classification of knowledge titled (Nafa'is al-funun fi ‘ara'is al-‘uyun).

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