Zayn-e-Attar

Manuscript of Ali ibn al-Hasan Zayn al-Din 'Attar Ansari Shirazi's Ikhtiyarat Badi'i. Copy created in Timurid Iran, dated 29 July 1444 Haji Zayn Attar ( 1329–1403) was a 14th-century Persian physician. He is best known as the author of the Persian language pharmacopoeia Ekhtiyarat i Badi i.

Biography

Attar was born in 1329-1330 CE (730 AH) in Shiraz, and lived during the rule of the Injuids and the Muzaffarids. He was a descendant of the Sufi philosopher Abdullah Ansari. His father Kamal ol Din Hosein Ansari was a well-known physician, and had migrated from Isfahan to Shiraz.

Attar's other works include:

Tuhfat ol Salatin ("Present of the Sultans"), an anatomical pamphlet Tuhfat ol Khavatin or Tohfat al Khavanin ("Present of the Queens") Risalah dar Sifat i mardan va zanan ("A Treatise on the Qualities of Men and Women")