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Abū Manṣūr b. Abī l-Faḍl ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī, known as Rashīd al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣūrī (d. 573–639/1177–1242), was an Arabic physician and botanist from the school of the Greek Dioscorides (d. c.90 C.E.). He possessed expert knowledge of the nature of simple drugs, their names, properties, and effects. He was born in the Crusader city of Tyre (Ṣūr). He grew up there but later moved to Damascus to study medicine under the physician Muwaffaq al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Sulamī (d. 604/
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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