Ahmad al-Damanhuri

أحمد الدمنهوري

Draft card for Ahmad al-Damanhuri, the eighteenth-century Grand Imam of al-Azhar, physician and jurist, d. 1778; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Egypt & Nile
Identifiers
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Medicine

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The 'Adudi Bimaristan· The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit· Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs)· Anbik (the alembic; head of the distilling apparatus)· Abu Abdallah al-Natili· al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad· Al-Mudhaffar al-Himsi· al-Nadir ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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The 'Adudi Bimaristan

The 'Adudi Bimaristan of Baghdad, the hospital 'Adud al-Dawla built: opened at the start of Rabi' II 372 with everything spent that could perfect it — physicians gathered in it, medicines, wardens, servants, vessels and clothes, all that the sick need — and the poor were given the clothes and vessels that came out of it.