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{{Short description|Persian physician}}
{{For|other use|Al-Tabari (disambiguation)}}
'''Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tabari''', born in [[Amol]], was a 10th-century [[Persians|Persian]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ali|first1=Mowlavi, Muhammad|last2=Rahim|first2=Gholami|title=Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ṭabarī|publisher=Encyclopaedia Islamica|language=en|doi=10.1163/1875-9831_isla_com_0078}}</ref> physician from  [[Tabaristan]]. He was the physician of [[Rukn al-Dawla]], a [[Buyid]] ruler.

He was author of a compendium of medicine ''Kitab al-mu'alaja al-buqratiya'' ([[Hippocrates|Hippocratic]]  treatments), in ten books. It is extant only in [[Arabic language]].
Tabari has written valuable articles on different medical sciences; however, he is especially famous for authoring the al-Mu'alajat al-Buqratiya (Hippocratic Treatments) - an important medical encyclopedia. Several of Al-Tabari's succeeding scholars and physician have referred to the al-Mu'alajat al-Buqratiya in their medical articles. The aim of this study is further introduction of this great physician and assessment of his theories and key works.

==Sources==
{{Reflist}}
*[[F. Wüstenfeld]], ''Arabschen Aerzte'' (56, 1840).

==See also==
*[[Medicine in the medieval Islamic world]]
*[[List of Iranian scientists]]

{{Islamic medicine}}
{{Authority control}}

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[[Category:10th-century Iranian physicians]]
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