Abu al-Bayan ibn al-Mudawwar (sometimes referred to simply as ibn al-Mudawwar or, erroneously, as Mudawwar) (1101–1184) was a Karaite Jew living in

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during the twelfth century. He served as court physician to the last

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ian Fatimid

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s and later to

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, who pensioned him when he was sixty-three years old. He was replaced in his former position by, among others,

Maimonides Musa ibn Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (); la, Moses Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam ( he, רמב״ם), was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah ...

. During the twenty years of his retirement his house was crowded with pupils; but he refused to see patients at their homes unless they were his friends. One day he was sent for by the emir Izz ad-Din abu-l-'Asakir Sultan ibn 'Izz ad-Dawla ibn Munqidh (uncle of the historian Usamah ibn Munqidh), who, on his arrival in Egypt, had fallen sick; ibn al-Mudawwar refused to go until requested to do so by

al-Qadi al-Fadil Muhyi al-Din (or Mujir al-Din) Abu Ali Abd al-Rahim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Lakhmi al-Baysani al-Asqalani, better known by the honorific name al-Qadi al-Fadil ( ar, القاضي الفاضل, al-Ḳāḍī al-Fāḍil, the Excellent ...

, the private secretary of Saladin. According to

ibn Abi Usaibi'a Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa Muʾaffaq al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Al-Qāsim Ibn Khalīfa al-Khazrajī ( ar, ابن أبي أصيبعة‎; 1203–1270), commonly referred to as Ibn Abi Usaibia (also ''Usaibi'ah, Usaybea, Usaibi`a, Usaybiʿah'' ...

, ibn al-Mudawwar left works on medical subjects, but they are no longer extant.

Resources

Kohler, Kaufmann and M. Seligsohn. "Mudawwar, Abu al-Bayan ibn al-".
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''. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901–1906; which gives the following bibliography: ** Ibn Abi Uṣaibi'a, ''Kitab 'Uyun al-Anba fi Tabaḳat al-Aṭibba'', ed. Aug. Müller. ii. 115, Königsberg, 1884; **

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, in ''Revue Orientale'', i. 404. 1101 births 1184 deaths Medieval Karaite Jewish physicians Medieval Jewish physicians of Egypt 12th-century Egyptian physicians Karaite rabbis Court physicians 12th-century Egyptian rabbis 12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate Rabbis from Cairo Physicians from the Fatimid Caliphate Physicians from the Ayyubid Sultanate {{Judaism-bio-stub