Abdullah Tabib
Unani Physician and writer
About Abdullah Tabib
Abdullah Tabib, also known as Abdullah Yazdi, (Other transliterations of the name include 'Abdu'llāh Ṭabīb, 'Abdu'llāh Yazdī, He lived during the reign of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (r.) 1580–1612), to whom he dedicated his work Farid. The author calls himself "Abdullah Tabib" in the book's preface. The end of the book's Bodleian Library manuscript, in which two leaves were added much later, calls him Abdullah Yazdi. or Tibb-i Faridi The introduction of the book discusses the essentials of health and its preservation. The book has a chapter dealing with common human diseases, and a conclusion divided into three parts.
According to Charles Ambrose Storey, a work titled Tibb i Faridi, attributed to Farid al-Din, may be same as Abdullah Tabib's Farid. It is known from a manuscript at the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library in Chennai, but does not contain any preface or colophon. It contains 368 chapters dealing with a particular disease and its treatment.
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