Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Ali al-Astarabadi was a 15th century Persian physician from Astarabad, Golestan, Iran. Golestan is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. ...
In 1427 he wrote his well-known commentary on Jaghmini's summary of the Canons of Medicine of Avicenna. Astarabadi dedicated it to Prince Murtada. Mahmud ibn Umar Jaghmini, was a 14th century Persian physician. ... Avicenna was the greatest of the medieval Islamic physicians, whose work had a direct impact on the Renaissance. ...
Little else is known of his life. NB Astarabad or Estarabad was renamed Gorgan (Jorjan in Arabic), in 1937.
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For information on his only known treatise, see:
C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, 1st edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1889-1936). Second edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1943-49). Page references will be to those of the first edition, with the 2nd edition page numbers given in parentheses. vol. 1, p. 457 (598)
C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937-1942), vol. 1, p. 826.
A. Z. Iskandar, A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967), pp. 56-57 and 184.
A.Z. Iskandar, A Descriptive List of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (Leiden: Brill, 1984), p. 73.
While the Hurufis did certainly proclaim that secrets of the cosmos were reflected in letters of the Arabo-Persian alphabet, their overall religious system purported to be a general science of interpretation which enabled the inspired Hurufi practitioner to decipher all entities and occurrences of the material world.
A majority of the reports concern the capabilities of Fazlallah Astarabadi himself since he was the Master of Interpretation par excellence, though rival Hurufi factions vying for Fazlallah's mantle after his execution in 1394 also advocated their viewpoints through claims about the correct interpretation of physical and psychic phenomena.
Fazlallah Astarabadi represented the final point for the evolution of human understanding of the esoteric world since he was the first and only individual to possess an uncircumscribed ability to move between the exoteric and esoteric worlds.
His lyric verses combine imagination, delicacy, and masterful use of language and have won him undying admiration.
Death of Fadlallah Astarabadi, founder of the populist Islamic movement of the Hurufiyya.
He taught that through interpretation of the alphabet and the numerical value of letters, it was possible to gain hidden spiritual knowledge that would bring salvation.
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