H Tadjbakhsh - Department of Pathobiology,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran , Tehran-Iran

Sayyed Esmail Josjani (Gorgani) was one of the greatest scientists and physicians of Irandied in 1136 in merve. He promted writing medical book in Persian by authoring the valuablebook of zakhireh kharazmshahi and Al Aghraz al tibia. Of course writing medical books inPersian was common before Avicennas time (980 - 1037). Zakhireh and Aghraz are like big andmedium medical encyclopedia and even since the creation of the present Persian script. Thesebooks are the last and most important medical books in Persian. Like any other ancient book,some parts of these books are abolished but some other parts are valuable. However these booksare remained to be unique as Persian medical books in the course of time. I have edited andcorrected al - Aghraz al tibia (Medical goals) from several old manuscripts. There are sevevalmanuscripts of al - Aghraz (which is about 250000 words). To edit and correct this book, I haveused five old important manuscripts of Aghraz and one manuscripts of zakhireh kharazmihahi.I have published this book in 2 volumes in 2005 - 2006. At the end of the second volume, I compileda medical dictionary named Dictionary of Aghraz. The references of this work are variousdocuments including manuscripts of published, old and new medical sources in persain orArabic languages and some English or French documents.

Sayyed Esmail Jorjani, Persian, medicine