Dānishnāmah-yi dārūsāzī va dārūkhānahdārī dar Iṣfahān

This encyclopaedic study presents a history of pharmacy in Iṣfahān from the earliest Islamic centuries to the mid-twentieth century. The first volume covers general pharmaceutical knowledge, tracing the discipline through successive dynasties. Beginning with intellectual conditions in Iṣfahān after the advent of Islam, the text profiles eminent physicians and pharmacists of the Buyid, Seljuk, Mongol, Timurid, Safavid, Zand, and Qajar eras. Figures such as Ibn Sīnā, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī, and Sayyid Ismāʻīl Jurjānī are examined alongside lesser-known local practitioners. The work also covers the influence of European medicine during the Qajar period, the founding of Dār al-Funūn, and the careers of foreign and Iranian physicians there. Documented with historical sources, manuscript references, photographs, and testimonies from descendants of Iṣfahānī pharmacists, this volume is a pioneering contribution to the history of Iranian pharmaceutical culture.