Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Ar-Razi: An Incredible Physician of Medicine Saga

Sidra, Sultana Anjum, Sheema, Sabiha Rasulsab Arjunagi, Kubra Anam Farooqui

Abstract: Whenever we hear Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Ar-Razi (Razi), expeditiously, we think of a prominent practitioner who meticulously differentiated measles from smallpox. This manuscript conserves the medical achievements and manuscripts, his personality and position. His persona was unique in its own way. He was also known as Rhazes in the Latin West and often referred to as "the Galen of the Arabs. This imminent medieval physician has been praised as "the greatest physician of Islam and the Medieval Ages" and even "the greatest clinician of all times". Numerous "firsts" in medical research and clinical care are attributed to him, and his writings alone set him apart.

Keywords: Al-Razi, Kitabal-Hawi, Liber Continens, Kitabal-Mansuri, Unani medicine