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Aladdin Abu al-Hasan Ali bin Abi al-Hazm al-Qurashi [607-687 AH / 1210-1288 AD]

Al-Nahr 1239 A.D. He was born in Damascus to a family whose origins go back to the town of Qirsh, beyond, in the year 5607/1210 A.D. In Damascus, he took his primary sciences and studied medicine there at the hands of his teachers, perhaps the most important of whom were Sheikh Radhi al-Din Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf bin Haydara al-Rahbi, and Muhdhab al-Din Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahim ibn Ali al-Dakhdar (the chief physician of the al-Nuri Hospital in Damascus, who died in 628 AH / 1231 AD), and Imran al-Isra’li (died in 5638 AD). The news is in the layers of doctors, who was seven years older than him, and they worked together in the field of medicine, although Ibn Abi Asaba’a was specialized in ophthalmology. To Cairo, Ibn Al-Nafis was twenty-six years of age, and in Cairo he worked with his friend in the most famous hospitals at the time
Ibn Al-Nafis rose in his work right to become the head of a doctor in one of the hospitals, while Ibn Abi Asaba’a was working in kohl (treatment of eyes) in the same hospital, and it seems that the two friends parted during this period, either before Ibn Al-Nafees was appointed as the head of the hospital, or after it, and this appointment may be His impact on her division, as Ibn Abi Osaiba left Cairo and returned to the Levant, so he joined the service of the Emir of Salkhad. Doctors of a much lower level than Ibn al-Nafis wrote about

It is mentioned about Ibn Al-Nafees that he was very intelligent, wide-knowledgeable, present with intuition, and his method of study and writing depended on research and scrutiny, regardless of the sayings of the previous ones, whatever their business, and therefore he was the first to confront Galen and Ibn Sina, and between the two mistakes until he became famous His hostility to Galen

With results, and in his authorship he relied on memorization and taking with his experiences and observations, and therefore he did not review or transfer from others, and he was abundant in production, so if he wanted to write, pens were placed for him sharpened, so he turned his face to the wall and took the classification and dictation from his mind, so the writing flowed from him like a tendency if He descended, so if the pen was full, he threw it away and took up others, so as not to waste time on sharpening the pen

He once said that he was in the baths of Cairo, and an idea occurred to him about the pulse, so he went out to the bathhouse, took a pen, a pen and paper, and began writing his article until he finished it, then he returned to the bath again and quenched his thirst.
Ibn al-Nafis was famous for him as a doctor, but in addition to this field he cared for language, jurisprudence, philosophy and science, so he wrote and gave lectures in it, and it was said about him: “There was no one on the face of the earth like him, and since Ibn Sina there was no Ahmed in his greatness, so that some It makes him above Ibn Sina.

His fame in the West is less than in the East, although the West's interest in him increased at the beginning of this century after one of the Egyptian physicians, Dr. Three hundred years ago, and he was the one who knew it through Ibn Al-Nafis, then he was the one who published a treatise on “The Errors of the Holy Trinity, in which he criticized the Church and its teachings. An Italian named (Al-Bago), had visited Damascus and brought from it several manuscripts which he translated in 1547, including a book by Ibn Al-Nafees. Likewise, Ibn Al-Nafees was four hundred years earlier than Harvey in this discovery. With marble until its iwan, and because he was not married, the house and his precious library were endowed on the humeral hospital in Cairo. He died after suffering from an illness that lasted six days, and he refused treatment with alcohol, fearing God that he would die with something of it in his stomach, and that was on the day of The twenty-first of Dhul-Qi`dah in the year 5687/1288 A.D. And who wrote it: 20 - a hundred early Friday