Rhazes biography of barack

known in the Latin West as Rhazes

(b. Rayy, Persia [now Iran], ca.

Rhazes biography of barack

854; d. Rayy, 925 or 935)

medicine, alchemy, philosophy, religious criticism.

We possess very little authentic information about Rāzī’s life. He was born around 854 in Rayy, and directed a hospital in that town and later in Baghdad.

Because of changes in the political situation and his personal standing at court, he returned on several occasions to Rayy.

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He died there in 925 or 935. Most of Rāzī’s philosophical and antireligious works are lost. Two treatises on ethics, Kitāb al-Tibb al-Ruhani (The Book of Spiritual Physick in Arberry’s translation) and Sirat al-Faylasūf (The Philosopher’s Way of Life), have been published.

Several manuscripts exist of the work entitled Doubts Concerning Galen, which deals with philosophical as well as with medical questions. Abundant information about Rāzī’s philosophical teaching can be gleaned from the quotations and references to him made by his critics,