Dawud al-Antaki

Dawud ibn Umar al-Antaki was an Arab physician from Antioch, called "the blind" because he was blind in one eye, and he lived in the tenth century AH. ²

According to the encyclopaedia, he died in 1008 AH (1600 CE). ²

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The Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.) entry on Dawud al-Antaki, whose heading is garbled in the harvest, describes a physician born at Antioch, son of the 'rais' of the village of Karyat Sidi Habib al-Najjar. Though blind, he undertook long journeys, which took him into Asia Minor, where on a Persian physician's advice he learnt Greek so as to study the sources of medical science in the original texts. He later lived at Damascus and Cairo and died at Mecca in 1008/1599, less than a year after his pilgrimage. ³

His handbook of medicine, Tadhkirat Uli 'l-albab wa 'l-jami' li 'l-'ajab al-'ujab, follows Ibn al-Bayṭar, and was printed in Cairo in 1890-1891. He also edited, under the title Tazyin al-aswaq, the work on love of Muhammad al-Sarradi (d. 500/1106), since the art of love was then treated as an appendix to medicine. He wrote short monographs, among them on the use of astrology in medicine. ³