The most popular poetic treatises were about simple medications s and medical books where one poem describes both a disease and the means to cure it. Most similar works of the post-Mongolian period were written in Persian. One example is the work “Shifa al-maraz” (Treatment of a Disease) also known as “Tibb-i Shihabi” (Medicine of Shihab) by Shihabaddin ibn ‘Abd al-Кarim Qawam Naguri (14th century). There are four copies, with the earliest of them created in 1685 in India.
Medical works by Yusuf Muhammad Yusufi al-Hirawi, a court doctor of Zahir aldin Babur (1526 – 1530) and his son, Humayun (1530 – 1556), enjoyed great popularity.
These include his “llaj-i amraz” (Treatment of Diseases) written in the form of quatrains or ruba’i and a commentary, “Jami’ al-fawa’id” (The Collection of Useful Information), which brought fame to Yusufi. The earliest of 29 folios of the 17th – 19th centuries dates from the beginning of the 17th century; 22 copies date from the 19th century.
You can learn more about this topic in the book-album “The Collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental studies, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan” (part two, “Miniature and Calligraphy”) (Volume XXII) from the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
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