AL-MAJ ū S ī , ABU ’ L-H ̣ ASAN ‘ AL ī IBN ‘ ABB ā S

(latinized as Haly Abbas ) ( b . al-Ahw ā z-Kh ū zist ā n, near Shiraz, Persia, first quarter of the tenth century; d . Shiraz, a.d. 994)

medicine, pharmacology, natural science .

Nothing is known of al-Maj ū s ī ’ s ancestry except that the nickname Maj ū s ī suggests that he, or most probably his father, was originally a Zoroastrian and that he does not seem to have traveled much outside his native country. Al-Maaj ū s ī received his medical training under the physician Ab ū M ā hir M ū s ū ibn Sayy ā r, author of a commentary of a ...