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In response to the query of Professor Doctor Behrooz Broumand: “Where was Avicenna and Rhazes from?” I say: the first was born in the village of Afshana near Bukhara and the second was born in Raÿÿ in the province of Fars. Bukhara is in present-day Uzbekistan, hence a few people maintain that Avicenna was Uzbekÿ and others think he is Russian! In order to economize space and time, and to cut short a polemic that seems to have no end, I refer the reader to a few of my published works on Avicenna and on Rhazes.1–22

If we return to our main topic, the anatomy charts, of which there are over seventy scattered around the world in various manuscripts. I have been trying to decipher their enigma for over 20 years without much success. We are planning, and hopefully we can achieve the main purpose of our plan; which is to publish most of these charts so that they reside in the public domain at the disposal of researchers who may be interested to decipher some of the following secrets: who is the author of these charts? What is the relation of one set to the other? What is their medical and historical importance, if any?

It is my hope that other readers might help in the solution of this puzzle rather than bring a dim set of chauvinistic glasses and sidestep the worthy endeavor.