Al razi scientist biography book
Al-razi contribution in psychology.
Abu Bakr al-Razi
1. Life and Works
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī made his fame mostly as a doctor.
The alchemy of al-razi
As his name “al-Rāzī” indicates, he hailed from the Persian city of Rayy, near modern-day Tehran. His biographers report that he ran a hospital there, and another in Baghdad. He received patronage from Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Manṣūr (d.
914), the governor of Rayy, to whom al-Rāzī dedicated a substantial medical treatise, The Book for al-Manṣūr. We have a variety of anecdotes about al-Rāzī’s medical practice, some found in his own works and some in his medieval biographers, for instance that al-Rāzī would deal only with patients whose condition stumped his students.
We also know, because he tells us himself, that he suffered from eye problems and a hand injury from copious reading, copying, and writing.
This latter piece of information is found in