abū l-ḥasan alī ibn al-‘abbās al-majūsī ahvazi (? 930-994 ad), best known as haly abbas in the west, was a 10th century persian physician whose lifetime coincided with the flourishing of medical science in the near east, the islamic medicine golden age, an era extending from the 9th to the 12th centuries ad. haly abbas, in his extant book kāmil al-sinā‘ah al-tibbīyah (the perfect book of the ar...