Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi (d.
994), also known as Masoudi, or in
Latin as Ali Abbas or Haly Abbas, was a Persian
physician most famous for the al-Maliki, his textbook of medicine.He was born in
Ahwaz, southwestern Persia, and studied under Shaikh Abu Maher Musa ibn Sayyār. He was considered one of the three greatest physicians of the Eastern Caliphate of his time, and became physician to Emir
Adhad al-dowleh Fana Khusraw of the
Buwayhid dynasty, who ruled from 949 CE to 983 CE. The Emir was a great patron of medicine, and founded a hospital at
Shiraz in Persia, and in 981 the
Al-Adudi Hospital in
Baghdad, where al-Magusi worked.
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