Medicine

Family: Knowledge: science, medicine, astronomy and the rest · 2 entries

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• Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

  c. 980 CE · c. 370 AHPersian polymath (c. 980–1037) whose Canon of Medicine and Book of Healing shaped medicine and philosophy across the Islamic world and Europe for centuries.

• al-Nadir ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi

  A prominent Thaqafi physician-nobleman and son of the famed physician al-Harith ibn Kalada; allied to Banu Abd al-Dar, he embraced Islam and was granted one hundred camels by the Prophet at al-Ji'rana among al-Mu'allafa Qulubuhum.

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