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  2. Al-Razi was a celebrated alchemist and Muslim philosopher who is also considered to have been the greatest physician of the Islamic world. In medicine he was an admirer of Hippocrates, and in philosophy he was a professed follower of Socrates and Plato and an opponent of Aristotle.

  3. Biography. Depiction of al-Razi in a 13th-century manuscript of a work by Gerard of Cremona. Al-Razi was born in the city of Ray (modern Rey, also the origin of his name "al-Razi"), [13] into a family of Persian stock and was a native speaker of Persian language. [14]

  4. Al-Razi (Rhazes) Al-Razi was a doctor who helped to plan the building of a hospital in Baghdad, in modern-day Iraq. This was the first documented general hospital in the world and it opened...

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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.
  5. May 19, 2021 · Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (865–925 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.

  6. The Persian physician al-Razi (ca. 865-925), also known as Rhazes, prepared compilations that were influential in Western medicine for centuries. His monograph on smallpox and measles is still considered a medical classic.

  7. 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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