Da'ud Abu al-Fadl: Difference between revisions

'''Da'ud Abu al-Fadl''' (1161–1242) was a [[Karaite Judaism|Karaite]] [[Jew]]ish physician who lived in [[Ayyubid Egypt]] in the twelfth century CE. He was born atin [[Cairo]] in 1161 and died there about 1242. Having studied medicine under the Jewish physician [[Hibat Allah ibn Jami]], and under [[Abu al-Fafa'il ibn Naqid]], he became the [[court physician]] of the sultan [[Al-Adil I|al-Malik al-'Adil Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub]], the brother and successor of [[Saladin]]. He was also chief professor at the [[al-Nasiri Hospital]] hospital at Cairo, where he had a great many pupils, among them being the historian [[ibnIbn Abi Usaibiyyah]]. The latter declared that Abu al-Fadl was the most skillful physician of the time and that his success in curing the sick was miraculous. Abu al-Fadl was the author of an Arabic [[pharmacopoeia]] in twelve chapters, entitled "''Aḳrabadhin''," and treating chiefly of antidotes.

==ResourcesSources==

[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=2&letter=F Kohler, Kaufmann and M. Seligsohn. "Fadl, Daud Abu al-".] ''[[Jewish Encyclopedia]]''. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-19061901–1906, citing:

*Ibn Abi Usaibi'ah, ''Uyun al-Anha' fi Ṭabaḳat al-Aṭibba','' ed. Aug. Müller, ii. 118-119118–119, Königsberg, 1884:

*Steinschneider, ''Jewish Literature,'' pp.  195, 366, note 16a;

:**idem, ''Bibl. Arab.-Jud.'' § 154.

[[Category:12th-century Egyptian Jewsrabbis]]

[[Category:1161Physicians birthsfrom the Ayyubid Sultanate]]

[[Category:124213th-century deathsEgyptian rabbis]]

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