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Zafir ibn Jabir al-Sukkari

ظافر بن جابر السكري

Unverified: died 980~. Recorded by an automated pass and not yet confirmed by a source, so not used on timelines.

Mosul → Aleppo

Abu Hakim Zafir ibn Jabir ibn Mansur al-Sukkari, a physician of Mosul who moved to Aleppo and stayed there for the rest of his life; he wrote an epistle on why animals die although food replaces what dissolves from them, according to al-Zirikli citing Tabaqat al-Atibba'.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Physician
Region
Levant & Iraq

In space

MosulAleppo

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Summary

Abu Hakim Zafir ibn Jabir ibn Mansur al-Sukkari was a physician of Mosul, according to his entry in the first edition of al-A'lam. 1

Life and work

Al-Zirikli says he moved to Aleppo and stayed there until the end of his life, and that he wrote an epistle "on why the animal dies although food replaces what dissolves from it", citing Tabaqat al-Atibba'. 2

Not covered here

The year of his death in the entry head is not legible in the OCR.

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Born in
Mosul
Lived in
Aleppo

People and things also explored

al-Kamal Ibn al-Sha'ar· al-Salah Abd al-Rahman ibn Uthman· Ibn Batish al-Mawsili· Ibn Shaddad Baha al-Din· Nasir al-Dawla· Yaqut al-Hamawi· Great Mosque of al-Nuri· Abu Dawud's wider journey: Egypt, the Jazira, Harran and Aleppo

Sources

  1. al-Zirikli, al-A'lam: Qamus Tarajim, vol. 2 (first edition, al-Matba'a al-Arabiyya, Cairo, 1346/1927) , p. 53
  2. al-Zirikli, al-A'lam: Qamus Tarajim, vol. 2 (first edition, al-Matba'a al-Arabiyya, Cairo, 1346/1927) , p. 54
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al-Kamal Ibn al-Sha'ar

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