As-Suwaydi (1204–1292, AH 604–690, full name ''‘Izz al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān as-Suwaydī'' ) was a medieval
Arab
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physician
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from the
Aws tribe,
and a pupil of
Ibn al-Baytar
Diyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī, commonly known as Ibn al-Bayṭār () (1197–1248 AD) was an Andalusian Arab physician, botanist, pharmacist and scientist. His main contribution was to systematically record ...
. Active in
Cairo
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and
Damascus, he compiled three works: a treatise on plant names, a treatise on the medical use of stones, and a book of medical recipes and procedures (''Tadhkirah'').
As-Suwaydi's ''Tadhkirah'' was epitomized by
Shaʿrānī in the 16th century.
[' ed. Cairo, 1302 ]885
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Events
By place Europe
* Summer – Emperor Charles the Fat summons a meeting of officials at Lobith (moder ...
1316 899
ed. Aḥmad Farīd al-Mazīdī, Beirut (1998).
MS A 45 in the
US National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, MD.
References
*
C. Brockelmann, ''Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur'' (1st edition 1889-1936, 2nd edition 1943-49) vol. 1 p. 493 (2nd ed. p. 650), no. 38.
* C. Brockelmann, ''Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur'', Supplement (Leiden: Brill, 1937-1942), vol. 1, p. 900 no. 38.
* Manfred Ullmann, "Die Medizin im Islam" in: ''Handbuch der Orientalistik'', (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), Abteilung I, Ergänzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1, p. 284.
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Pharmacologists of the medieval Islamic world
1204 births
1292 deaths
Medieval Syrian physicians
13th-century Arabs