Career
Muḥammad ibn Yusuf al-Ilāqī was an eleventh-century Persian physician from Khorasan. He did not die in 536/1141 (in the battle of the Qatwan steppe) but most probably around 460/1068 and should be counted among Avicenna"s (d 429/1037) direct students. First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ilāqī produced an epitome of the first book of the Canons of Medicine by Avicenna which was known under various titles: Kitāb al-Fuṣūl al-Ilāqiyya ("The Aphorisms of al-Ilāqī") and Kitāb al-asbāb wa-al-'alāmāt ("The Book of Causes and Symptoms").
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ilāqī"s greatly abbreviated version of the first book of the Canon was very popular, and many copies have survived.
