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Natili. Abu Abdallah Husayn ibn Ibrahim ibn Hasan ibn Khurshid at-Tabari an-Natili ( | ALA-LC: Abū ʿAbdallāh Ḥusain ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Khūrshīd aṭ-Ṭabarī an-Nātllī), was a Persian people physician from Tabaristan.
He is most famous for being the tutor of the influential polymath Avicenna. Later, Ibn Sina was largely dismissive of Natili's influence but acknowledged that his interest in medicine arose in the course of his studies with him.Starr, S. Frederick. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, page 256 As Ibn Sina was largely dismissive of most contemporaries, such as Al-Biruni, Abu ‘l- Faraj, and more,Starr, S. Frederick. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, pages 258-265 this actually speaks to the level of respect Natili must have commanded.
He flourished in the 10th century, and was a translator of Greek into Arabic. He dedicated, in 990-991AD, an improved translation of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica to the Simjurids. Ibn Sina later included large sections of it in the fourth book of The Canon of Medicine, which was the authoritative source of medieval medicine for centuries.Starr, S. Frederick. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, pages 256-258
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