ABUL-QASIM AZ-ZAHRAWI'S "MAQALATUS-SALASIN" WORK

Azerbaijan, with its ancient statehood traditions and rich history, has always been distinguished by a culture that values scientists and science. Thus, since ancient times, our people have not only given outstanding representatives of global science but have also appreciated scientists renowned not only in the Islamic world but throughout the world. When we review today the wealth that our scientific devotees once acquired through a thousand hardships, we see that there are sufficient sources for the study of our cultural history, our scientific history and even our medical science. The treasury of the Institute of Manuscripts named after Mahammad Fuzuli of the Republic of Azerbaijan preserves up to 40,000 manuscripts of various contents, as well as a collection of historical and personal documents. Up to 12,000 of them are manuscripts. Among them are ancient manuscripts dealing with the fields of history, geography, logic, jurisprudence, hadith, astronomy, astrology, literature, linguistics, mathematics, etc. Among the sources preserved in the treasury, manuscripts on medicine have always been in the spotlight. The Institute of Manuscripts named after Muhammad Fuzuli of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences preserves 363 medieval manuscripts on medicine. 222 of these works, are written in Persian, 71 in Arabic and 70 in Turkish. One of these interesting sources is "al-Maqalatus-salasin", which is the part of the encyclopedic work "at-Tasrif liman ajaza `anit-ta`lif" by Abul-Qasim az-Zahrawi (XII).