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medieval Ibn Sina
... in the West as Avicenna. His al-Qanun fi at-Tibb (Canon of Medicine) was the standard medical textbook in Europe and the Muslim...
classical al-Kindi
...he Arabs'; pioneer in logic, mathematics, music theory, and medicine.
classical al-Razi (physician)
The greatest physician of the medieval world; his al-Hawi (Continens) was a medical encyclopedia used in European universities until the 17th century.
classical al-Zahrawi
Father of modern surgery; his al-Tasrif introduced surgical instruments that remained in use for 500 years.
medieval al-Mazari
Imam of Sicily, leading Maliki jurist and physician of the medieval period.
medieval Ibn al-Nafis
Greatest Arab physician after Ibn Sina. Discovered the pulmonary circulation of blood 300 years before William Harvey.