Al-Zahrawi: A Prominent Muslim Medical Scientist and His Impact on West
@inproceedings{Anjum2013AlZahrawiAP, title={Al-Zahrawi: A Prominent Muslim Medical Scientist and His Impact on West}, author={Saba Anjum}, year={2013} }
Abstract Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi (936-1013AD), known in the west by his Latin name Albucasis , was born in Al-Zahra’a six miles northwest of Cordova in Andalusia (Spain). He is regarded as the greatest of Muslim surgeons; European surgeons, who came after him, considered him a greater surgeon than even Galen (Greek physician and surgeon b.129AD) and described him as the father of modern surgery. His greatest contribution to medicine is the Kitab al-Tasrif , a thirty-volume encyclopaedia of…
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