al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad

الخونجي أفضل الدين محمد

1194 CE · 590 AH – 1248 CE · 646 AH

Scholar of medicine, philosophy and logic of Persian origin; born 590 AH (1194 CE) and died 646 AH (1248 CE).

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Roles
Philosopher · Physician
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar · al-Thaqafi al-Jayyani Muhammad ibn al-Hasan · Ibn Khalil al-Dimashqi Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf · يوسف البياسي

Philosophy and logicMedicine

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موجز

أفضل الدين أبو الفضائل أبو عبد الله محمد بن ناماور بن عبد الملك الخونجي، عالم بالطب والحكمة والمنطق، من أصل فارسي. وُلد سنة 590هـ (1194م) وتوفي سنة 646هـ (1248م)، بحسب «موسوعة أعلام العلماء والأدباء». 1

People and things also explored

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)· The world's createdness or eternity· The planets' reign and the world's cycles· The transmigration of souls· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Wafa al-Ghunaymi al-Taftazani· Al-Abhari, Athir al-Din al-Mufaddal ibn Umar· al-Abili, Abu Abd Allah

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-khunaji-afdal-al-din-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Persian polymath (c. 980–1037) whose Canon of Medicine and Book of Healing shaped medicine and philosophy across the Islamic world and Europe for centuries.