THE ISLAMIC PHYSICIANS AND THEIR DISCOVERIES

Many Islamic physicians made outstanding discoveries in all aspects of medicine during the Islamic Golden Age, building upon the knowledge of Galen and the Greek and adding their own discoveries. The most notable Islamic scholar in the history of medicine was al-Razi.

HISTORY OF MEDICINETHE ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE, SPANNING THE 8TH TO THE

15TH CENTURIES, SAW MANY GREAT ADVANCES IN SCIENCE, AS ISLAMIC SCHOLARS GATHERED KNOWLEDGE FROM ACROSS THE KNOWN WORLD AND ADDED THEIR OWN FINDINGS.

Central to Islamic medicine was belief in the Qur'an and Hadiths, which stated that Muslims had a duty to care for the sick and this was often referred to as "Medicine of the Prophet." According to the sayings of the Prophet Muhammed, he believed that Allah had sent a cure for every ailment and that it was the duty of Muslims to take care of the body and spirit. This certainly falls under the remit of improving the quality of healthcare and ensuring that there is access for all, with many of the Hadiths laying down guidelines for a holistic approach to health.

Prophet Muhammad himself urged people to "take medicines for your diseases", as people at that time were reluctant to do so. He also said,

"God created no illness, except that He has established for it a cure, except for old age. When the antidote is applied, the patient will recover with the permission of God."

ABU ALI AL-HASAN (965-1020 A.D.) Abu Ali al-Hasan (965-1020 A.D.) known as Alhazen in the west

is recognised as the greatest authority on optics the world has ever produced. He was born at Basra and later joined the service of a Fatimid Caliph of Egypt, where he was assigned to discover the method of regulating the inundation of the river Nile. He could not achieve this objective, hence he had to remain underground till the death of the Caliph. He has made valuable contributions to the development of physics and medicine, but his outstanding achievement is in the realm of optics. He has corrected the theories of Euclid and Ptolemy on the subject. His Opticae Thesaurus influenced such great writers on optics as Roger Bacon, Leonard da Vinci, John Kepler and all mediaeval western writers, who base their works on the research of Alhazen. The two greatest luminaries of the Islamic world Ibn Sina and Al-Beruni shared and fully endorsed Alhazen's opinion that, 'It is not the ray that leaves the eye and meets the object that gives rise to vision. Rather the form of the perceived object passes into the eye and is transmitted by its transparent body. 

ABU-AL-JARRAH-AL-ZAHRAWI(936----1013) Al-Zahrawi lived during most powerful period of

the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba. He was born in 936 and died in 1013, and served the Umayyad Caliph al-Hakam II and the military ruler, al-Mansur. Throughout his life, al-Zahrawi was a court physician, having been patronized by the rulers of al-Andalus and recognized for his medical genius. He served in such a capacity as a doctor for over 50 years. "Every branch of science was seriously studied there, and medicine received more and greater additions by the discoveries of the doctors and surgeons of Andalusia than it had gained during all the centuries that had elapsed since the days of Galen."

ALI IBN AL-ABBAS-AL-MAJUSI ( ---994) He was a native of Ahwaz, Persia. He received his

medical education at the worldfamous medical school of Jundishapur. He was a court physician of Buwide ruler AduduDawla (d983), who founded the Adudi Hospital in Baghdad. His Latinized was HalyAbbas in the west as Haly Abbas, who died in 994 A. D., was the author of a celebrated work Kitab-al-Maliki known as Liber Regius in Latin, an excellent and compact encyclopaedia dealing with both the theory and practice of medical science. It is less voluminous than Al-Razi's Hawi and it remained a standard book until it was superseded by the Canon the masterpiece of the great Avicenna. Perhaps Majusi was the first physician to write about the capillary system and to describe accurately the way in which a child is born. 

THE MOST NOTABLE ISLAMIC SCHOLAR IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE WERE

1. Al Razi = (850-923)2. Yuanna ibn Masawyh = (777-857)3. Hunayan ibn Nishaq (808-873)4. Al Tabari = ( 810-855)5. Alhakim ( ---- 840)6. Ibn Sina = (7. Ibn Al Nafis = (1213-

IBN RUSHD (----1198) known as Averroes in the west who died in

1198 in Morocco is the greatest Aristotelian philosopher, He is the author of 16 medical works of which one Kulliyat Fil Tib dealing with general rules of medicine was translated into Latin as Colliget. It was printed several times in Europe. Averroes is one of the most outstanding literary figures that Islamic Spain has produced and he was instrumental in clearing away the darkness of illiteracy that had enveloped Europe.

JABIR IBN HAIYAN (722 – 804) Also known as Geber. The father of Arab

chemistry known for his highly influential works on alchemy and metallurgy.

ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYA AL RAZI   865 – 925

Al Razi, whose full name is Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya Al-Razi, is also known by Rhazes especially to the western world. He is Persian, born in the year 841, in a small town in Iran called Rayy. He lived to the age of 60 years old and died in 925 AD.  known to the Europeans as Rhazes (may be spelt Rhases, Rasis, Rasi or ar-Razi) (865-923), was at the forefront of Islamic research into medicine. A prolific writer, he produced over 200 books about medicine and philosophy, including an unfinished book of medicine that gathered most of the medical knowledge known to the Islamic world in one place. This book was translated into Latin and it became one of the backbones of the western history of medicine.

Al Razi wrote extensively about human physiology and understood how the brain and nervous system operated muscles, and only the Islamic distaste for dissection prevented him from refining his studies in this area.

Al Razi one of the greatest thinkers, doctors and writers of all time. 

ABU NASR AL-FARABI (873– 950) lso known as Alfarabius, the first-known philosopher in

the Islamic world to uphold the primacy of philosophical truth over revelation, claiming that, contrary to the beliefs of various other religions, philosophical truths are the same throughout the world. He was born in Farab, Transoxiana (now Uzbekistan), of Turkish parentage. He studied first inKhorasan (in Iran) and then in Baghdad, where his teachers were Syriac Christians well acquainted with Greek philosophy. He eventually came to the court of Sayf al-Dawla, the ruler of Aleppo inSyria. Al-Farabi was one of the earliest Islamic thinkers to transmit to the Arab world the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle (which he considered essentially identical), thereby greatly influencing such later Islamic philosophers as 

2.YUHANNA IBN MASAWYH (777 - 857) Yuhanna Ibn Masawyh (777 - 857) was

regarded as amongst the great translators of work from Greek into Arabic, but he also acted as a physician to the Caliphs and served at a hospital. He is believed to have written the works 'Disorders of the Eye' and 'Knowledge of the Oculist Examinations' as well as Kita al Mushajjar al-Kabir, a short work including descriptions, diagnosis, symptoms and treatments of diseases.

3. HUNAYAN IBN NISHAQ (808-873)

Hunayan ibn Nishaq (808-873), known as Johannitus in the West, was one of the titans of Islamic medicine and was a prominent author of medical texts, covering a variety of disciplines. As well as extensive translation work, he wrote a book called 'The Book of Introduction to Medicine,' which drew heavily upon Galen but also included many unique and novel additions. His work was probably the first Islamic medical text translated into Latin.

701 (died) - Khalid Ibn Yazeed - Alchemy 721 - Jabir Ibn Haiyan (Geber) - (Great Muslim Alchemist) 740 – Al-Asmai - (Zoology, Botany, Animal Husbandry) 800 - Ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi - (Alkindus) - (Philosophy, Physics, Optics) 808 - Hunain Ibn Is’haq - Medicine, Translator 838 - Ali Ibn Rabban Al-Tabari - (Medicine, Mathematics) 857 – Ibn MasawaihYou’hanna – Medicine , 884 - Al-Razi (Rhazes) - (Medicine,Ophthalmology, Chemistry) 912 (died) - Al-Tamimi Muhammad Ibn Amyal (Attmimi) – Alchemy 930 - Ibn Miskawayh, Ahmed Abuali - Medicine, Alchemy 932 - Ahmed Al-Tabari – Medicine 936 - Abu Al-Qasim Al-Zahravi (Albucasis) - (Surgery, Medicine 950 – Al Majrett’ti Abu-alQasim – Astronomy, Alchemy,

Mathematics 976 - Ibn Abil Ashath - Medicine

980 - Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 1060 - (died) Ali Ibn Ridwan Abu’Hassan Ali - Medicine,

Philosophy, Mathematics) 1077 - Ibn Abi-Sadia Abul Qasim - Medicine 1090 - Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) - Surgery, Medicine 1097 - Ibn Al-Baitar Diauddin (Bitar) - Botany, Medicine,

Pharmacology 1091 - Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) - ( Surgery, Medicine)

1095 - Ibn Ba 1100 - Ibn Tufayl Al-Qaysi - Philosophy, Medicine jah,

Mohammad Ibn Yahya (Avenpace) - Philosophy, Medicine

1128 - Ibn Rushd (Averroe’s) - Philosophy, Medicine 1135 - Ibn Maymun, Musa (Maimonides) - Medicine,

Philosphy

1162 - Al Baghdadi, Abdellateef Muwaffaq - Medicine, Geography

1203 - Ibn Abi-Usaibi’ah, Muwaffaq Al-Din – Medicine 1248 (died) - Ibn Al-Baitar - ( Pharmacy, Botany) 1258 – Ibn Al-Banna (Al Murrakishi), Azdi - Medicine,

Mathematics 1341 (died) - Al-Jildaki, Muhammad Ibn Aidamer –

Alchemy

History of Islamic Science Based on the book Introduction to the History of Scienceby George Sarton (provided with photos and portraits) Edited and prepared by Prof. Hamed A. Ead 1 (died) - Al-Jildaki, Muhammad Ibn Aidamer - Alchemy

AMMAR Latin name: Canamusali. Abu-l-Qasim Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili. From Mawsil in Iraq; flourished in Egypt in the reign of al-Hakim, who ruled from 996-1020. Physician. The most original of Muslim oculists, His work was eclipsed by that of his contemporary Ali ibn Isa, which was more comprehensive. His summary on the treatment of the eye (Kitab al-muntakhab fi ilaz al-ain) contains many clear descriptions of diseases and treatments, arranged in logical order. The surgical part is especially important.

ALI IBN RIDWAN Abu-l-Hasan Ali ibn Radwan ibn Ali ibn Ja’far al-Misri. Born in Jiza near Cairo, c. 998. Flourished in Cairo and died there in 1061 or in 1067. Astrologer. physician. The author of many medical writings of which the most popular was his commentary on Galen’a Ars prava, which was translated by Gerardo Cremonese. I may still quote his treatise on hygiene with special reference to Egypt (fi daf mudar alabdan bi-ard Misr). He wrote various other commentaries on Hippoctates and Galen and on Ptolemy’s astrological books.

IBN AL-TAIYIB Abu-l-Faraj Abdallah Ibn al-Taiyib al-Iraqi. Latin name : Abulpharagius Abdalla Benattibus. Died in 48 1043-44. Nestorian physician. Secertary to Elias I, Nestorian Catholics from 1028 to 1049. Physician at the Adudite hospital in Bagdad. He had many commentaries on Greek medicine, and original memories on various medical topics, also a translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian De plantis, with additional excerpts from ancient literature. From Arabic translation of the Diatessaron ascribed to him

4.AL TABARI = ( 775-875)

Al Tabari, (810 - 855) wrote a book known as 'The Paradise of Wisdom,' in 850, which was based largely upon the earlier works of Galen and Hippocrates, but it also included an appendix with translations from Indian sources. Like many physicians of the time, his work involved providing better and more detailed encyclopedias, containing the medical knowledge available at that time. Sadly, it is believed that most of his works are lost and are only referred to as quoted in later texts.

Al Tabari's work was made up of nine discourses, each divided into many chapters. These were:

General pathology, symptoms of internal disorders and general therapeutic principles

Diseases and conditions affecting the head Diseases of the eyes, nose, face and mouth Nervous diseases Diseases of the chest and throat Diseases of the stomach Diseases of the liver Diseases of the heart and lungs Diseases of the intestines, urinary tract and genitals

AL-AQSARA'I,(--- 1379) Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad

Aqsara'i(died 1379), also writtenal-Aqsara'i, was a 14th-century Persian or Turkish physician. Al-Aqsara'i studied medicine with his father, under whose tutelage he first read the Mujiz. Thereafter he studied The Canon of Medicine itself, as well as the Hawi by Razi and the Complete Book on Medicine by al-Majusi, as well as the medical writings of Najib al-Din al-Samarqandi. He employed these other treatises in his commentary on the Mujiz, and he titled his commentary "The Key to the Mujiz" (Hall al-Mujiz). He died in 1379.

5.ALHAKIM ( ---- 840)

Al Hakm (Died 840) wrote the earliest known book in the medical sciences in the Islamic world and it drew heavily upon Greek sources, including information about physiology, surgery and general healthcare, amongst other sections.

6.IBN SINA ( 980--- 1037 ) Abu Ali Husain Ibn Sena was born in Afshana near Bokhara in central Asia Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd

Allāh ibn Sīnā (c. 980 -1037), often referred to as Ibn Sina or Avicenna (Latinized name) was a Persian polymath (one with numerous skills and professions) who was a prolific writer. Of 450 books and articles written by him, 240 still exist today, of which 40 focus on medicine. Avicenna was born c. 980 in Afšana, a village near Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan).

The Islamic scholar Ibn Sina, Avicenna, was a true polymath who excelled in many academic fields, including philosophy, theology, Islamic medicine and natural sciences. From a young age, he gained renown as a physician and teacher, writing many detailed treatises about medicine

One of Ibn Sina’s most famous writings was the book ‘The Canon of Medicine’ or Qanun fi al Tibb. The Canon is a medical Encyclopedia of more than a million words. The Canon summarizes the existing medical knowledge and adds new discoveries too. It is divided into many sections and topics and discusses general medicine, it talks about hundreds of drugs and medicinal plants, it talks about the different organs of the body in detail, diseases and the spread of them. 

Ibn-Sina believed that many diagnoses could be made by simply checking the pulse and the urine, and a large part of the Canon is given over to making diagnoses from the color, turbidity, and odor of urine. Of course, this also needed to be set alongside the Islamic holistic approach of looking at diet and background.

7. AL KINDI = ( 801-873) IBN ISHAQ AL-KINDI (801 – 873) another of the great

Islamic polymaths, further contributed to the history of medicine. This scholar was heavily influenced by the work of Galen, and also made unique contributions of his own to the field. In his Aqrabadhin (Medical Formulary), he described many preparations drawn from plant, animal and mineral sources.

To the drugs known to physicians such as Hippocrates and Galen, he added knowledge drawn from India, Persia and Egypt. Like many Islamic works, the books contained information based upon medicinal herbs, aromatic compounds, such as musk, and inorganic medicines. It could, quite legitimately, be argued that the Islamic contribution to the history of medicine saw the first divide between medicine and pharmacology as separate sciences.

ABU MANSUR HASAN IBN NUH QUMRI  (Persian:  قمری نوح بن حسن منصور was a Persian physician of the (ابو

10th century who lived in Khorasan. Qumri was the teacher ofAvicenna. He was court physician to the Samanid prince al-Mansur, to whom he dedicated the only treatise by him that is preserved: the Kitab al-Ghina wa-al-Muna (The Book of Wealth and Wishes), which was also known as al-Shamsiyah al-mansuriyah (The Mansurian Sunshade) after its dedicatee. Little else in known of his life except that he died shortly after 990.

IBN AL-BAITAR (1197 – 1248)

Arab scientist, botanist and physician who systematically recorded the discoveries made by Islamic physicians in the Middle Ages

ABU MERWAN IBN ZUHR (1113-1199

He was born in Seville, Spain where he built up his reputation early on as anoutstanding physician. His family produced six generations of doctors, as was his sonAbu Bekr Ibn Zuhr. He believed in the practice of medicine, as much as bedsideobservation. He attended the poor free of charge, but took high fee from the rich. Heaccumulated much wealth through his practice. He was court physician of Moahhed rulerof Seville Abdul Momin (d1163) to whom he dedicated his book on diets

SAYYID ISMAEEL AL-JURJANI

 (d1136)He was the first person who used Persian in his scientific writings. His bestknown work is gigantic

 Zakhira Khawarazamshahi  (Treasury of King of Khawarism)which was acclaimed as the

best textbook on science and medicine.He also wrote  Aghraz al-Tibb  (Aim of the Medicine), Yadigari Tibb  (MedicalMemoranda)and the  Khuffe Alai  (Book of Exaltation). He popularized Arabic medical

terminology, phrases, and terms which remained in Persian language. His descriptions of disease aretrue account of his personal observations. For instance in describing goiter and swellingof the throat he was the first to connect an exophthalmos with such swellings, a sign re-discovered by Parry in 1825. None of his works were translated into any of the Europeanlanguages

ABUL QASIM AL-ZAHRAWI (1013- 1106)

He was born at the newly developed metropolis of Islamic Spain, Madinat az-Zahra, located 8 km from Cordoba. He was a practicing physician, a surgeon, and a pharmacist. Caliph Abdur Rahman III (912-961) appointed him court physician.

ABUL HASSAN IBN AL-TILMIZ(BAGHDAD 1076- 1165)

 Ibn Tilmidh (468-560/1076-1165) known as Amin al-Dawlah. He was one of the important Arab physician, who traveled throughout Persia but later returned to settle in Baghdad where, he was appointed as head of physicians of Baghdad. In his capacity as head of Baghdad physicians, he was asked to teach healing art to many students from far and near who after graduation led prominent and successful professional life in their own countries. As reported by many historians, Ibn al-Tilmidh made use of the works of the Greek physicians and also the works of Ibn Sina as the main sources of his teaching. Therefore, we are not surprise to find out his works consisted of ideas of Greek physicians notably Hippocratic corpus and Galen and those of Hunayn, Ibn Sina, al-Razi, etc.

8. IBN AL NAFIS = (1213-12880 He was born in a small town Kersh, near Damascus,

educated at the college-hospital founded by Sultan Nurudin Zangi. He learnt Islamic jurisprudence, literatureand, theology besides medicine. When he moved to Cairo he was appointed director ofthe famous Nasri hospital. He trained a large number of medical students, including Ibnal-Quff, the famous surgeon. He was an authority on religious law and a prolific writer ofmedical tracts. He specialized in eye diseases. He was the first director of recentlyconstructed Mansuriyya hospital in Cairo, to which he bequeathed his house, library, andclinic. He was given the title of Chief of Physicians

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ALI IBN TASHFIN (reigned 537-555/1143-1160). In

medicine, he wrote several treatises included two works on theriaca (al-Tiryaq al-Sab`ini) and on diet (al-Aghdhiyyah). During the later period of his life, he became acquaintance with Ibn Rushd, to whom he dedicated his al-Taysir fi Mudawat al-Tadbir.

9. Ibn al-Haytham (Al-hazen in Latin)

(965-c. 1040), an Iraqi Muslim scientist, explained scientifically that the eye is an optical instrument. He described the anatomy of the eye in great detail and later formed theories on image formation. Al-haytham's Book of Optics became widely read throughout Europe until the 17th century.

10. ABD AL-LATIF AL-BAGHDADI (1162-1231) Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (1162-1231), a famous

Iraqi physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveler, said that Galen was wrong to say that the lower jaw consists of two parts. On observing the remains of humans who had starved to death in Egypt, he concluded that the lower jaw (mandible) consists of just one bone. In his work, "Book of Instruction and Admonition on the Things Seen end Events Recorded in the Land of Egypt", he wrote:

"What I saw of this part of the corpses convinced me that the bone of the lower jaw is all one, with no joint nor suture. I have repeated the observation a great number of times, in over two thousand heads...I have been assisted by various different people, who have repeated the same examination, both in my absence and under my eyes.."

IBN AL-HAYTHAM(965-1040) Ibn al-Haytham (Al-hazen in Latin) (965-c. 1040),

an Iraqi Muslim scientist, explained scientifically that the eye is an optical instrument. He described the anatomy of the eye in great detail and later formed theories on image formation. Al-haytham's Book of Optics became widely read throughout Europe until the 17th century.

Ahmad ibn Abi al-Ash'ath, an Iraqi doctor, described how a full stomach dilates and then contracts after experimenting on live lions. al-Ash'ath preceded William Beaumont by nearly 900 years in carrying out experiments in gastric physiology.

AL-GHAZALI( 1058-1111)

known as Algazel to the western medieval world, was born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia (modern day Iran). He was a Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, physician, psychologist and mystic of Persian origin], and remains one of the most celebrated scholars in the history of Sufi Islamic thought. He is considered a pioneer of the methods of doubt and skepticism, and in one of his major works, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, he changed the course of early Islamic philosophy, shifting it away from the influence of ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, and towards cause-and-effect that were determined by God or intermediate angels.

IBN KATINA(---1369A.D.) , the Moorish physician who died in 1369

A.D. is the author of excellent book on the plague. A severe plague which ravaged Alemaria in Spain in 1348-49 A.D. caused the celebrated physician to write a treatise on the plague which was superior to all earlier works on the subject. This book was edited and translated in Europe in the 15th century A.D. and revealed the contagious character of the plague and its remedies which were not known to Greek physicians. 

Aminu Dawla Ibn al-Quff   22 nd  August 1233 - 1286 at DamascusHe was a master of many disciplines like medicine, physiology, natural science,and philosophy. He learnt medicine from Ibn Abi Usayba (1203-1270) who was muchimpressed with his aptitude for medicine. In his youth he read number of biographies andspent great deal of time in meditation.His teacher asked him to study  Masai l of Ishaq ibn Hunain and A phorism s and  Prognosi sof Hippocrate. After reading these books he learnt the causes, symptoms and treatment ofdisease. In his commentaries he included sayings and annotations of Zakariya al-Razi

ABU AL-QASIM AL-ZAHRAWI   (Albucasis), who was born in Al-Zahra in

AD936. He is regarded as the most famous of the Arab surgeons, but he was also skilled in the use of simple and compound remedies, and was thus sometimes described as "the pharmacist surgeon". He wrote the famous manual on surgery, called Al-Tasrif, although it also includes sections on the preparation and dosage of drugs, nutrition, public health, and anatomical dissection. The celebrated sections on surgery are illustrated with drawings of about one hundred surgical instruments

Najeebuddin al-Samarqandi ( Herat - d 1222) He was a famous physician from Afghanistan

who flourished at the time ofPersian philosopher Fakhruddin ar-Razi (d1210). He died during the pillage of hishometown Heart by Mongols. His most important medical work is

 Asbab wal -Almat   (etiology and symptoms of disease), a commentary

on thiswork was written by al-Kirmani. He also wrote a book on the treatment of disease by dietand two medical formularies. His other works are:

 Al-Adwiya al-Mufrada - simple drugs Aghziyat al-Marada - diet for the ill Aghziya wal Ashriba - food and drink Fee Mudawat waja al-Mafasid - cure of pain in the joints Feel al- Tibb - on medicine Fee kafiyat Tarkib Tabaqat al-Ayn - on the layers of eye Feel Adwiya al-Mustamala Indal sayadila - drug preparation by pha

Abdul Lateef   (1162-1231)He was born in Baghdad,

where he studied alchemy and medicine in his youth. In1189 he started his long journey to Damascus, Jerusalem & Cairo. In Damascus he taughtmedicine and philosophy, & took part in a debate with some city philosophers. He was

 victorious in this debate. He visited Jerusalem, and then onto Cairo where be becamefriend of Musa ibn Maimoon, the personal physician of Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi

IBN RUSHD (1128-1198) He was born in Cordoba, Islamic Spain where his grandfather was

Imam of theGrand Mosque. He was born in a family of learned scholars and jurists. His father andgrandfather were judges. He was by nature pensive, loathed to position and wealth. He passed most of his time in study and it was said that during his long life there had beenonly two nights when he could not study - on the night of his marriage and the other onthe night of his fathers death.In 1169 he became magistrate (Qazi) of Seville, then Cordoba, and in 1196governor of Andalusia on account of his astonishing erudition. As a judge in Seville for25 years he busied himself writing commentaries on Aristotle's books. Once he expressedhis unhappiness over the fact that all his books were still in his hometown. In Cordoba hedeveloped friendship with famous physician Ibn Zuhr who suggested him to studymedicine. He requested his physician friend to write a book on al-Umur al-Juziya(treatment of head to toe diseases) which he did and called it

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