Abul qasim al zahrawi biography definition
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Abulcasis
Spanish Muslim Philosopher
936-1013
Abul Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi (known in the west as Abulcasis) was born in 936 A.D. in Zahra in the neighbourhood of Cordova. He became one of the most renowned surgeons of the Muslim era and was physician to King Al-Hakam-II of Spain. After a long medical career, rich with significant original contribution, he died in 1013 A.D.
He is best known for his early and original breakthroughs in surgery as well as for his famous Medical Ecyclopaedia called Al-Tasrif, which is composed of thirty volumes covering different aspects of medical science. The more important part of this series comprises three books on surgery, which describe in detail various aspects of surgical treatment as based on the operations performed by him, including cauterization, removal of stone from the bladder, dissection of animals, midwifery, stypics, and surgery of eye, ear and throat. He perfected several dem
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Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi the Great Surgeon
by Ibrahim Shaikh Published on: 22nd December 2001
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Al-Andalus - Al-Zahrawi - Andalusia - Featured - Healthcare - Ibrahim Shaikh - Medicine - People - Surgery -Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 CE), also known in the West as Albucasis, was an Andalusian physician. He is considered as the greatest surgeon in the Islamic medical tradition. His comprehensive medical texts, combining Middle Eastern and Greco-Roman classical teachings, shaped European surgical procedures up until the Renaissance. His greatest contribution to history is Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume collection of medical practice, of which large portions were translated into Latin and in other European languages.
by Dr. Ibrahim Shaikh*
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1. Al-Zahrawi • Arab Andalusian physician, surgeon and chemist (936–1013) Not to be confused with Al-Qaeda terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951–2022). Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari[1] (Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي; c. 936–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi (الزهراوي), Latinised as Albucasis or Abulcasis (from Arabic Abū al-Qāsim), was a physician, surgeon and chemist from al-Andalus. He is considered one of the greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages.[2][3] Al-Zahrawi's principal work is the Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices.[4] The surgery chapter of this work was later translated into Latin, attaining popularity and becoming the standard textbook in Europe for the next five hundred years.[5] Al-Zahrawi's pioneering contributions to the field of surgical procedures and instruments had an enormous impact in the East and West well into the modern peri
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