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Jaghmini
by al-Jaghmini (from a private collection). Mahmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Umar al-Jaghmini ( ) or ' al-Chaghmīnī, or al-Jaghmini, was a 13th or 14th-century Arab physician, astronomer and author of the Qanunshah (The Canon of Medicine) a short epitome of by Avicenna in Persian, and Mulakhkhas (Summary), a work on astronomy. Little of him is known beyond what is indicated by his name, that he was a native of Jaghmin, a village in Khwarezm (Khiva), current day Uzbekistan. He is sometimes confused with another Jaghmini who lived until the mid-14th century, but multiple sources show he was alive in the early 13th.
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by al-Jaghmini (from a private collection). Mahmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Umar al-Jaghmini ( ) or ' al-Chaghmīnī, or al-Jaghmini, was a 13th or 14th-century Arab physician, astronomer and author of the Qanunshah (The Canon of Medicine) a short epitome of by Avicenna in Persian, and Mulakhkhas (Summary), a work on astronomy. Little of him is known beyond what is indicated by his name, that he was a native of Jaghmin, a village in Khwarezm (Khiva), current day Uzbekistan. He is sometimes confused with another Jaghmini who lived until the mid-14th century, but multiple sources show he was alive in the early 13th.
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