Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam
Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam Ubaydullah Ibn al-Muzaffar al-Bahili (d. 1174 CE) was an Andalusian-Arab physician, musician and astrologer of the Islamic Golden Age who lived in Damascus, Syria. When Nur ad-Din Zangi founded the Bimaristan in Damascus, he entrusted the medical care of the patients to Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam.
Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam
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- Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam
- Birthplace
- Andalusia
- Died
- 1174 CE
- Place of death
- Damascus, Syria
- Occupation
- Physician, Musician, Astrologer
- Born
- 1174 · Almería.
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Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam Ubaydullah Ibn al-Muzaffar al-Bahili (d. 1174 CE) was an Andalusian-Arab physician, musician and astrologer of the Islamic Golden Age who lived in Damascus, Syria. When Nur ad-Din Zangi founded the Bimaristan in Damascus, he entrusted the medical care of the patients to Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam.
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All methods of treatment and prescriptions which he gave were carried out to the letter. After finishing his ward round, he would pass on to a magnificently furnished hall to consult there various scientific works..There all physicians and students gathered round him in order to discuss medical points. When he had asked questions of his pupils and worked for about three hours in the wards and in the library, he would return to his home".
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• Name — Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam • Birthplace — Andalusia • Died — 1174 CE • Place of death — Damascus, Syria • Occupation — Physician, Musician, Astrologer
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Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam born at Almería.
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- 1.Hitti, Philip K. (2002). History of The Arabs. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 578."Another Hispano-Arab physician who practiced medicine in the east was Ubaydullah Ibn al-Muzaffar al-Bahili of Almeria (al-Mariah)."
- 2.Ward, Bāqir Amīn. Muʻǧam al-ʻulamāʼ al-ʻArab. ʻĀlam al-Kutub : Maktabaẗ al-Nahḍaẗ al-ʻArabiyyaẗ. 1. 38–39. 1986.
- 3.Packard, Francis R. Annals of medical history. P.B. Hoeber. 145. 1941.
- 4.Elgood, Cyril. A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate: From the Earliest Times Until the Year A.D. 1932. Cambridge University Press. 237. 2010. 978-1-108-01588-2.
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