d. 870 Arab physician and teacher of ar-Razi (Rhazes; c. 865-923) whose Firdous al-hikmat (The paradise of wisdom), c. 850, established the foundations of Islamic medicine. The seven-volume encyclopedia, which was the first major work to bring together...

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (c. 838–c. 870 CE) was a Muslim hakim, Islamic scholar, physician and psychologist of Persian Jewish descent, who produced the first encyclopedia of medicine. He was a pioneer of pediatrics and the field...