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He served for sixteen years as the court physician to the Muzaffarid ruler Shah Shuja , who ruled from 1358 to 1384 . Shah Shuja is famous for being the patron of the famous poet Hafez of Shiraz .

Haji Attar's comprehensive Persian Pharmacopoeia of simple and compound remedies, the ''Ikhtiyarat-i Badi‘i'' was apparently composed for the Muzaffarid princess Badi‘ al-Jamal, who is named in the title of the treatise but of whom very little is known.

He died in 1403.


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For sources regarding his life, see:

  • Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Persian Medical Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles: A Descriptive Catalogue, Humana Civilitas, vol. 4 (Malibu: Udena Publications, 1978), p. 32.

  • C.A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey. Volume II, Part 2: E.Medicine (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1971), pp. 220-3 no. 380.



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