Abdullah Tabib
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Abdullah Tabib | |
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| عبدالله طبيب or عبدالله یزدی | |
| Born | Golconda Sultanate (present-day South India) |
| Other names | Abdullah Yazdi, ʿAbdu'llāh Ṭabīb, ʿAbd Allāh Ṭabīb, ʿAbd Allāh Yazdī |
| Occupation(s) | Unani physician; writer |
| Era | Mughal period (Golconda Sultanate) |
| Notable work | Farid (also known as Tibb-i Faridi) |
Abdullah Tabib, also known as Abdullah Yazdi,[a] was a Unani physician and writer from the Golconda Sultanate of present-day southern India. He is best known for writing the medical book Farid, also known as Tibb-i Faridi.
Abdullah Tabib was a famous physician of Golconda.[3][4] He lived during the reign of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (r. 1580–1612), to whom he dedicated his work Farid.[2][5] The author calls himself "Abdullah Tabib" in the book's preface. The end of the book's Bodleian Library manuscript, in which two leaves were added much later, calls him Abdullah Yazdi.[1] Another work, Subh-i Sadiq, dates Abdullah Yazdi to the same period, and describes him as an immigrant to India and a pupil of Khwaja Jamaluddin Mahmud Shirazi.[1]