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  1. al-Rāzī (born c. 854, Rayy, Persia [now in Iran]—died 925/935, Rayy) was a celebrated alchemist and Muslim philosopher who is also considered to have been the greatest physician of the Islamic world.

  2. According to Biruni, al-Razi died in Rey in 925 sixty years of age. [26] Biruni, who considered al-Razi his mentor, among the first penned a short biography of al-Razi including a bibliography of his numerous works. [26]

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    Al-Razi was born in Rey, Tehran – the capital of Iran in 853 AD. He has quite a long name, ‘Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakarya Al-Razi’. After his basic studies, he moved to Baghdad to study medicine. He studied medicine at hospitals and translated the Greek books written on it. This enabled him to write books over two-hundred. With much of the practice...

    Al-Razi’s long services in medicine and optics led him to lay the groundwork for Muslim Scholars to expand these subjects. Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Al-Biruni followed him and revised most of his works. Among many of his discoveries like chemical instruments to separate one chemical from others, creams for skin use, bottles, and flasks to use in labo...

    He was given the titles father of pediatrics, the doctor of doctors, and the founder of the study of eyes.
    The ruling caliph made him the chief physician and head of Rey hospitals.
    His book Al-Mansuri which was written on surgery became part of the curriculum of western universities.
  3. May 19, 2021 · First published Wed May 19, 2021. Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (865925 CE, 251–313 AH) was one of the greatest figures in the history of medicine in the Islamic tradition, and one of its most controversial philosophers.

  4. Al-Razi eventually returned to Persia, where he died in 925. As al-Razi’s renown spread, many students traveled far distances to study medicine under him. Like the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, al-Razi urged the licensing and formal training of all those entering the medical field.

  5. Nov 4, 2021 · Al-Razi (also known as Rhazes in the western world) was a Muslim Persian scholar, researcher, physician and alchemist. He was born in 865 CE in the ancient city of Rey near modern Tehran, the present capital of Iran.

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  7. Diet was a fundamental therapeutic procedure in al-Razi's medical methodology. He emphasized the importance of consulting the wishes of the patient concerning food, especially during the period of convalescence. Theoretically, no single factor in the treatment of the sick was more important to al-Razi than was the doctor-patient relationship.