Completion of the Mansuri maristan in Cairo, 683/1284

استكمال المارستان المنصوري بالقاهرة، ٦٨٣هـ

1284 CE · 683 AH

Cairo

In 683/1284 the Mansuri hospital endowed by sultan al-Malik al-Mansur Qalawun was completed in Cairo 1. Ibn al-Nafis, to whom the headship of medicine in Egypt had come, died four years later leaving his house, fortune and books as an endowment to this maristan 2 3.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Cairo

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Summary

In 683/1284 the Mansuri hospital endowed by sultan al-Malik al-Mansur Qalawun was completed in Cairo 1.

Ibn al-Nafis's endowment

Ibn al-Nafis, to whom the headship of medicine in Egypt had come, died four years later leaving his house, fortune and books as an endowment to this maristan 2 3.

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Ibn al-Nafis· السلطان المنصور سيف الدين قلاوون
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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· 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· Ibn al-Nafis· Cairo· Al-Azhar Mosque· Bab al-Futuh, Cairo

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 897
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , s.a. 687 p. 312
  3. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 402
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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

Ibn al-Nafis died at Cairo on 21 Dhu al-Qa'da 687 (December 1288) aged about eighty — the Shadharat margin notes 'he was eighty-four' — and endowed his house, fortune and books to the Mansuri maristan; none like him came after. Al-Suwaydan relates that on his deathbed 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.