Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Physician
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- 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
Salah al-Din ibn Yusuf al-Kahhal, a physician of the last generation of Arab sages. He grew up in the city of Aleppo, according to the encyclopedia 1.
Death
He died in the year 696 AH (1296 CE) 1.
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-Mudhaffar al-Himsi
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. “Salah al-Din ibn Yusuf al-Kahhal”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/salah-al-din-ibn-yusuf-al-kahhal/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.