al-Ghāfiqī, Muḥammad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Ghāfiqī, Muḥammad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Savage-Smith, Emilie

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060162
Doc. NO	:	ALei559
Main Entry	:	Savage-Smith, Emilie
Title & Author	:	al-Ghāfiqī, Muḥammad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Savage-Smith, Emilie
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(955 words)
Abstract	:	Muḥammad b. Qassūm b. Aslam al-Ghāfiqī was an oculist in late sixth/twelfth-century Muslim Spain. Nothing is known of his life or education but what can be gleaned from his only composition, Kitāb al-murshid fī ṭibb al-ʿayn (“The guide to ophthalmology”). There is no mention of the author or his treatise in any extant biographical dictionary, including that of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa (d. 668/1270), where the omission is particularly significant, because Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa was himself a practising oculist. In the Murshid , the author refers (
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei559.pdf