Muhadhdhib al-Dīn Abūʼl-Hasan ʻAlī ibn Ahmad Ibn Habal () known as Ibn Habal () (c. 1122 - 1213) was an

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physician and scientist born in

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. He was known primarily for his medical compendium titled Kitab al-Mukhtarat fi al-tibb (), "The Book of Selections in Medicine." It was written in 1165 in

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, north of

, 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).http://worldcat.org/oclc/14480866&referer=brief_results

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Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate Physicians from Baghdad Writers from Baghdad 1120s births 1213 deaths 12th-century physicians 12th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate 12th-century Arab people {{Iraq-med-bio-stub

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