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The famous Iranian Islamic physician and chemist, Mohammad ibn Zakariyah Razi
Compiled by: Syed Ali Shahbaz
On 5th of the Islamic month of Sha'ban in 313 AH, the famous Iranian Islamic physician and chemist, Mohammad ibn Zakariyah Razi, passed away at the age of 62 years. He was born in the city of Ray, and initially followed his father's profession of a goldsmith later turning to chemistry in addition to honing is skills in other sciences, such as medicine, geometry, logic, and philosophy.
He has compiled almost 250 works in different scientific fields, in both Arabic and Persian including “al-Hawi fi't-Tibb”, “al-Mansouri”, and “Sayrat al-Falsafiyah”. Known as Rhazes to Medieval Europe, for several years he served as director of the principal hospital of Baghdad before returning to his native Rayy, where he eventually died. In short, he isolated many chemical substances, produced many medications, described many laboratory apparatus, classified many diseases and discovered the cure of many.
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