Rustam Gorgani

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Rustam Jurjani was a mid-16th century Persian physician who lived in India.

Rustam Jurjani was court physician of Khan Ahmad Jilan and the Sultan Nizam-Shah Burhan I (ruled 1508-1553) in the city of Ahmadnagar in the Deccan, India. His name indicates he was from Gorgan, Golestan, Iran.

He composed several medical treatises in Persian, the most extensive being his encyclopaedia of material medica which he compiled at the request of Sultan Nizam-Shah and named after him.

Of the latter The National Library of Medicine has one of only two recorded copies.

[edit] See also

• List of Iranian scientists

[edit] Sources

• C.A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey. Volume II, Part 2: E.Medicine (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1971), p. 244
• Fateme Keshavarz, A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1986), pp 274-6 no 130.