At a glance
- Roles
- Philosopher · Physician
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Afdal al-Din Abu al-Fada'il Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Namawar ibn Abd al-Malik al-Khunaji, a scholar of medicine, wisdom and logic, of Persian origin. He was born in 590 AH (1194 CE) and died in 646 AH (1248 CE), according to the "Encyclopaedia of Notable Scholars and Men of Letters". 1
People and things also explored
Abu Abdallah al-Natili· Ibn Sina (Avicenna)· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit· Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs)· Wisdom (al-hikma)· Anbik (the alembic; head of the distilling apparatus)· Fu'ad and qalb (the heart as insight)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-khunaji-afdal-al-din-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.