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Ibn al-Nafis
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī, known as Ibn al-Nafīs, was an Arab polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He is known for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. The work of Ibn al-Nafis regarding the right sided (pulmonary) circulation pre-dates the l…
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science · Arab polymath and physician (1213–1288) · philosopher · writer · physician · Islamic jurist · also Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactus, Ibn an-Nafis, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī, al-Nafis
Born 1215 · Died 17 December 1288 · Q319146
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2026· 2 entries
Hebdo Ahram: Tracing the footsteps of historical Cairo's lost icons: Ibn Al-Nafis, the Syrian Polymath
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2023· 1 entry
Egyptian publishing house "Dar Al-Sherouk" published "The Papermaker" or (in Arabic: الوراق), a novel by Egyptian writer Youssef Zidane, the novel tell the real story of Ibn a-Nafis life, following The Crusades campaign
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1924· 1 entry
Egyptian physician, Muhyo Al-Deen Altawi, discovered a manuscript entitled, Sharh tashrih al-qanun li’ Ibn Sina, or "Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon" in the Prussian State Library in Berlin while studying the h
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1288· 1 entry
Died 1288-12-17.
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1215· 1 entry
Born 1215.
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