Bioethics and Health Law Journal (BHL)

Abstract

Four scholarly physicians and great scientists and influential in the medicine of the Islamic territory emerged after the fall of the Sasanian kingdom and the Arabs domination over Iran and the propagation of the Arabic language in Iran, who were very respected and cherished from the viewpoint of medicine and national etiquette and other fields of science. These four people, who are the architects of quadruplet pillars of Islamic medicine, are Ibn Raban Tabari, Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Razi, Ali Ibn Abbas Majosi Ahwazi and Sheikh al-Raees Abu Ali Sina in the order of date of birth, who generally was writing in Tazi language. Seyyed Ismail Jurjani, Heravi, Akhvini, Aburihan Biruni and Farabi came into being after these first- class stars of the Islamic world that all of them were Persian writers, but Seyyed Ismail Jurjani was at the head of all these dignitaries, who in fact he has been the beginning of this movement and the modern era of Iranian medicine. Seyyed Ismail Jurjani was born in Jurjan in 531 AH and died AH in Merv in 531. The importance of this great physician is that He has written all medical and other works in Persian language. Also, he has authored the most reliable and detailed of a medical book after Abu Ali Sina's “Law in Medicine” called “Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi”. This medical work has always been considered one of the medicine pillars since authoring to after that. This honorable work includes all medical topics until the author's lifetime and is remarkable in terms of including the number of Persian words and terms which is used in medicine and pharmacy. Other medical books of Seyyed Ismail Jurjani which has been written in Farsi and they have always been used and Iranian physicians have referred to them in recent centuries, are the Agharaz, Yadgar and Khafi Alaei books. In fact, Seyyed Ismail Jurjani is the one who has revived medicine and other sciences with his ballads, according to al-Bayhaghi. In addition to that, “Modernization of Iranian Medicine” also begins with the appearance of medical works in the Persian language of Seyyed Ismail Jurjani.