Muhadhdhib al-Dīn Abūʼl-Hasan ʻAlī ibn Ahmad Ibn Habal ( ar, مهذب الدين أبي الحس علي بن أحمد ابن هبل) known as Ibn Habal ( ar, ابن هَبَل) (c. 1122 - 1213) was an
Arab
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physician and scientist born in
Baghdad
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[Vernet, J. ''Ibn Hubal'' in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. CD-ROM Edition v 1.0. (Leiden: Brill, 1999).] He was known primarily for his medical compendium titled Kitab al-Mukhtarat fi al-tibb ( ar, كتاب المختارات في الطب), "The Book of Selections in Medicine
It was written in 1165 in
Mosul
Mosul ( ar, الموصل, al-Mawṣil, ku, مووسڵ, translit=Mûsil, Turkish: ''Musul'', syr, ܡܘܨܠ, Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second larg ...
, north of
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
, where Ibn Hubal spent most of his life.
The chapters on kidney and bladder stones were edited and translated into French by P. de Koning in his ''Traité sur le calcul dans les reins et dans la vessie'' (1896
Other chapters have been translated by Dorothee Thies in ''Die Lehren der arabischen Mediziner Tabari und Ibn Hubal über Herz, Lunge, Gallenblase und Milz'' (1968
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See also
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List of Arab scientists and scholars
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Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
People from Baghdad
1120s births
1213 deaths
12th-century physicians
12th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
12th-century Arabs
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