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Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Ibn al-Kattani al-Madhiji () (951–1029), sometimes nicknamed "al-Mutatabbib" (the physician), was a well-known
(retrieved 23-09-2011) Al-Kattani also wrote an anthology of Andalusian Arabic, Andalusian poetry, and became especially famous by his book on metaphor in Andalusian poetry. He died in
Ibn Hazm of Cordova on Logic
11th-century Al-Andalus writers Scholars of Al-Andalus Physicians of Al-Andalus 951 births 1029 deaths 10th-century Arabs 11th-century Arabs 11th-century physicians 10th-century Spanish philosophers {{Al-Andalus-bio-stub
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Ibn al-Kattani al-Madhiji () (951–1029), sometimes nicknamed "al-Mutatabbib" (the physician), was a well-known Arab
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scholar, philosopher, physician, astrologer, man of letters, and poet.
Born in Córdoba in the Caliphate of Cordoba, he wrote books on logic, inference and deduction.
For some time he was the personal physician of Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir
Abu ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abi ʿĀmir al-Maʿafiri ( ar, أبو عامر محمد بن عبد الله بن أبي عامر المعافري), nicknamed al-Manṣūr ( ar, المنصور, "the Victorious"), which is often Latiniz ...
, sultan of al-Andalus
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, and wrote ''The Treatment of Dangerous Diseases Appearing Superficially on the Body'' (''Mu`alajat al-amrad al-khatirah al-badiyah `ala al-badan min kharij''). It was cited by later writers, but thought to be now lost, until a copy of it was discovered among the manuscripts now at the National Library of Medicine
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. Much of the treatise is on the subject of poisonous bites. Emilie Savage-Smith, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, ''Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine'(retrieved 23-09-2011) Al-Kattani also wrote an anthology of Andalusian Arabic, Andalusian poetry, and became especially famous by his book on metaphor in Andalusian poetry. He died in
Saragossa
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in 1029.
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Bibliography
By Ibn al-Kittani: *''Kitab al-Tashbihat'' (translated by Wilhelm Hoenerbach 1973) Secondary literature in Spanish: * Bosch Vilá, J.: ''El Oriente Árabe en el desarrollo de la cultura de la Marca Superior''; Madrid, 1954. *Tomeo Lacrué, M.: ''Biografía Cientifica de la Universidad de Zaragoza''; Zaragoza, 1962. *Martínez Loscos, C.: ''Los orígenes de la Medicina en Aragón'', Cuadernos de Historia J. Zurita, n.° 6–7, Zaragoza, 1958. In German: * ''Dichterische Vergleiche der Andalus-Araber''. I und II by Wilhelm Hoenerbach Review: * Farida Abu-Haidar, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 37, No. 2 (1974), p. 460External sources
Ibn Hazm of Cordova on Logic
11th-century Al-Andalus writers Scholars of Al-Andalus Physicians of Al-Andalus 951 births 1029 deaths 10th-century Arabs 11th-century Arabs 11th-century physicians 10th-century Spanish philosophers {{Al-Andalus-bio-stub