The medical section of the Kitāb al-Naṣīḥatayn or Book of the Two Pieces of Advice by the medieval author cAbd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) challenges the idea that Arabic-Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century A.D. Moreover, it offers some interesting…
"The medical section of the Kitab al-Nas̥īh̥atayn or Book of the Two Pieces of Advice by the medieval author ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) challenges the idea that Arabic-Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century A.D. Moreover, it offers some interestin…
The medical section of the Kitab al-Nasihatayn or Book of the Two Pieces of Advice by the medieval author cAbd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (1162-1231) challenges the idea that Arabic-Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century A.D. Moreover, it offers some interesting…
Muwaffaq al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (557–629/1162–1231) was an Arabic polymath, with a specific interest in grammar, medicine, and philosophy. He was born in his grandfather’s house on a street in Baghdad called Darb al-fālūdhaj (“Sweetmeats Alley”; Ibn Abī Uṣaybi…
The physician and philosopher Muwaffaq al-Dīn Yaʿqūb Ibn Siqlāb (d. c.626/1229), who is sometimes referred to as Ibn Ṣaqlān (because of confusion over the spelling of his name in Arabic script), was born in Jerusalem, probably around 555–66/1160–70. He was a Melkite, an Eastern …
The polymath Fakhr al-Dīn Riḍwān b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Rustam al-Khurāsānī al-Sāʿātī ( al-sāʿātī = the clockmaker) (d. c.627/1230) was an Arab physician and littérateur who was well-versed in logic and other philosophical disciplines as well as in clockmaking. He was born and r…
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, a…
The learned shaykh Najm al-Dīn Abū l-Futūḥ Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Sarī (d. c.540/1145) was also known as Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ . He was considered an outstanding astronomer, a renowned physician, and a distinguished scholar in other sciences, including philosophy. Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ is said t…