Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani

Abū 'Ubayd al-Jūzjānī, (d.1070),^[1] (ابو عبيد جوزجانی) was a Persian physician and chronicler from what is now Jowzjan Province in Afghanistan.

He was the famous pupil of Avicenna, whom he first met in Gorgan.^[2] He spent many years with his master in Isfahan, becoming his lifetime companion.

See also

• List of Iranian scientists

References

1. Science, Medicine and Technology, Ahmad Dallal, The Oxford History of Islam, ed. John L. Esposito, (Oxford University Press, 1999), 171.
2. Ibn Sina (1974). The Life of Ibn Sina. SUNY Press. p. 43. ISBN 0-87395-226-X.

External links

• Dhanani, Alnoor (2007). "Jūzjānī: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al‐Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al‐Jūzjānī". In Thomas Hockey; et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 604–5. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)