Abu al qasim al zahrawi biography

Arab Andalusian physician, surgeon and chemist (936–1013)

Not to be confused with Al-Qaeda terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951–2022).

Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari^[1] (Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي;‎ c. 936–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi (الزهراوي), Latinised as Albucasis or Abulcasis (from Arabic Abū al-Qāsim), was an Arab physician, surgeon and chemist from al-Andalus.^[2] He is considered one of the greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages.^[3][4]

Al-Zahrawi's principal work is the Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices.^[5] The surgery chapter of this work was later translated into Latin, attaining popularity and becoming the standard textbook in Europe for the next five hundred years.^[6] Al-Zahrawi's pioneering contributions to the field of surgical procedures and instruments had an enormous impact in the East and West well i Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi - NETEF