Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Ali al-Astarabadi was a 15th century Persian physician from Astarabad, Golestan

Golestan Province

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, Iran

Iran

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In 1427 he wrote his well-known commentary on Jaghmini

Jaghmini

Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar Jaghmini, or al-Jaghmini was a 14th century Persian physician. He was born at Jaghmin, a village in Khwarezm , current day Uzbekistan....

's summary of The Canon of Medicine

The Canon of Medicine

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of Avicenna

Avicenna

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā , commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived...

. Astarabadi dedicated it to Prince Murtada.

Little else is known of his life.
NB Astarabad or Esterabad was renamed Gorgan (Jorjan in Arabic), in 1937.

Sources

For information on his only known treatise, see:

• Carl Brockelmann
  Carl Brockelmann
  Carl Brockelmann , German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, Königsberg...
  
  , Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, 1st edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1889–1936). Second edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1943–49). Page references will be to those of the first edition, with the 2nd edition page numbers given in parentheses. vol. 1, p. 457 (598)
• Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937–1942), vol. 1, p. 826.
• 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), pp. 56–57 and 184.
• A.Z. Iskandar, A Descriptive List of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (Leiden: Brill, 1984), p. 73.

See also

• List of Iranian scientists

Founder of the Horufi sect.