At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
On his deathbed
Al-Suwaydan relates that he refused the wine prescribed him as medicine, saying he would not meet God with wine in his body, and died at dawn on Friday 4.
Connections
- Had participant
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Occurred at
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Ibn al-Nafis becomes Chief Physician of Egypt and personal physician of Baybars, c. 658/1260· Ibn al-Nafis settles in Cairo and joins the Nasiri hospital, 633/1235· Ibn al-Nafis composes the Theologus Autodidactus (Fadil ibn Natiq) at Cairo, c. 670/1270· Completion of the Mansuri maristan in Cairo, 683/1284· Ibn al-Nafis· Cairo· Al-Azhar Mosque· Bab al-Futuh, Cairo
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 401-402
- Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , s.a. 687 p. 312
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 897
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Al Mubdioune, episode 17, at 00:22:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Death of Ibn al-Nafis at Cairo and his endowment of estate and books to the Mansuri maristan, 21 Dhu al-Qa'da 687/December 1288”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/death-ibn-al-nafis-687/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.
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