Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal
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Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal
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ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Kahhal, surnamed "the oculist" (al-kahhal) was the best known and most celebrated Arab ophthalmologist of medieval Islam. He was known in medieval Europe as Jesu Occulist, a Latin translation of his name. He was the author of the influential Tadhkirat al-kahhalin, sometimes translated as Memorandum of the Oculists, the most comprehensive Arabic ophthalmology book to survive from the medieval era. The work was based on the writings of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Galen, and other earlier au
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Arab ophthalmologist of medieval Islam
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2023-08-22T04:32:18Z
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