At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- PhysicianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Kamal al-Din al-Muzaffar ibn Ali ibn Nasir al-Qurashi, Abu Mansur al-Himsi, a physician and man of letters born in Homs. 1
What the data say
The data record his death in 612 AH (about 1215 CE) as reported. 1 He was a Sunni, and his role as a physician was in the Ayyubid and Mamluk age.
Notes for researchers
- His life, works and teachers need an additional source, as there is only one encyclopaedia.
People and things also explored
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· Ahmad al-Damanhuri· al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad· al-Nadir ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi
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-Mudhaffar al-Himsi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-mudhaffar-al-himsi-physician/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.