Al-Dakhwar
Al-Dakhwar | |
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| Title | Ra'is al-Tibb ("Chief of Medicine") |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1170 CE |
| Died | 1230 CE |
| Era | Ayyubid |
| Region | Egypt and Syria |
| Main interest(s) | Medicine |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Muslim leader | |
Influenced | |
Muhadhdhabuddin Abd al-Rahim bin Ali bin Hamid al-Dimashqi (Arabic: مهذب الدين عبد الرحيم بن علي بن حامد الدمشقي) known as al-Dakhwar (Arabic: الدخوار) (1170–1230) was a leading Arab physician who served various rulers of the Ayyubid dynasty. He was also administratively responsible for medicine in Cairo and Damascus. Al-Dakhwar educated or influenced most of the prominent physicians of Egypt and Syria in the century, including writer Ibn Abi Usaibia and Ibn al-Nafis, the discoverer of blood circulation in the human body.