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 the [[Ayyubid Sultanate|Ayyubid Egypt]] in the twelfth century CE. He was born in [[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]] at Cairo, where he had a great many pupils, among them being the historian [[Ibn 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'', treating chiefly of antidotes.