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Al-Razi

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi

Al-Razi is remembered as both a physician and a provocative philosopher of the Islamic golden age.

BORN c. 865 CE · Rayy, PersiaDIED c. 925 CE · Rayy, PersiaERA Abbasid

NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION

Advanced medical observation while engaging philosophical questions with unusual independence.

THE RECORD

He directed hospitals in Rayy and Baghdad.
His medical works influenced later Islamic and European medicine.
His philosophical views were controversial among later theologians and philosophers.