Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli

Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Amuli was a medieval Persian physician from Mazandaran, Iran.

He wrote an Arabic commentary on the epitome of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine that had been made by Yusuf al-Ilaqi.

Between 1335 and 1342 Amuli also composed a large and widely-read Persian encyclopedia on the classification of knowledge titled (Nafa'is al-funun fi ‘ara'is al-‘uyun).

Little else is known of his life.