The Great Ones · Middle East & Persia

Al-Razi (Rhazes)

c. 854–925

Persian physician and chemist; a pioneer of clinical medicine.

Al-Razi (Rhazes) (c. 854–925) endures among the great of Middle East & Persia. Persian physician and chemist; a pioneer of clinical medicine.

Across the medieval age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost.

Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

Submitted with honor.

Submitted by the Honored Ancestors Editorial Committee.