Dawud Ibn Umar Al-Antaki also known as Dawud Al-Antaki () was a blind Muslim physician and pharmacist active in

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. He was born during the XVI in Al-Foah and died around in

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in 1597. He lived most of his life in Antioch before made a pilgrimage to

and took advantage of the trip to visited Damascus and Cairo. He will then settle in Mecca. After the hey-day of

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, Daud Al-Antaki was one of three great names in the field of Arabic medicine in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries CE, alongside the Iraqi scholar

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and the Ottoman physician

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Works

Tadhkr Al Qabb

Tadhkir al-Qabb is a three-part medical book dealing with herbal medicines and includes descriptions of over 3,000 medicinal and aromatic plants."صفحات من تاريخ العلوم بالحضارة العربية.. داود الأنطاكي صاحب التذكرة (10)". البوابة نيوز. مؤرشف من الأصل في 26 مايو 2018. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 22 يوليو 2020.

Others

Daud al-Antaki also wrote ''The Book of Precious Kohl for the Evacuation of the President's Eyes'' an explanation of Ibn Sina's poem. He also wrote three books on astronomy, some books on logic and a book on psychiatry that contains

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

s in medical advice.

References

* Part or all of the Arabic Wikipedia article (https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A and https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B0%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9_%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AC%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8) {{DEFAULTSORT:Antaki, Dawud al- 1599 deaths Syrian writers Year of birth unknown 16th-century writers 16th-century physicians from the Ottoman Empire