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Al-Razi ( latin Rhazes ) ( 854-925 ), Muslim physican and writer, whose medical writing greatly influenced the Islamic world as well as Western Europe in the Middle Ages.Razi, full name Abu Bakr Muhammed ibn Zakariya al-Razi, was born and died in Ray, Persia,near Tehran,in what is now Iran.He wrote on almost every aspect of medicine.

His works : Among numerous medical works,Razi's most important was al-Hawi ( The Comprehensive Book,or Liber continens, as it was known in medieval Europe ), an enormous medical encyclopedia originally in 20 volumes, of which 10 have survived. It encompassed almost the whole of Greek, Syrian, and early Arabic medicine and included virtually every topic of medical importance.

Success : Razi's personal experiences and observations as a physican make the alHawi a landmark in the history of medicine. In his most famous work, Treatise onSmallpox and Measles, Razi gives the earliest known description of smallpox. Razi also made important contributions to alchemy and philosophy, althoough most of these works are lost. In what was an unusual opinion for his time, he argued for the continuous progress of the sciences, and thus disagreed with the followers of the greek philosopher Aristotle; he regarded himself a disciple of the Greek philosopher Plato. Also unusual was his acceptance of an atomic theory of matter. His famaous books are the followung : (1) Arabian Medicine (2) Al Hawi (3) Kitab Al Mansura (4) Barr-ul-Saat (5) Kitab Al-Asrar (6) Fi Jamal il Mousuqi