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" Pragmatic Inversion of Geophysical Data "
by Sven-Erik Hjelt.
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AL
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English
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1063045
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ALei3442
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Savage-Smith, Emilie
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ʿAmmār b. ʿAlī al-Mawṣilī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Savage-Smith, Emilie
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(950 words)
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ʿAmmār b. ʿAlī al-Mawṣilī was an important early fifth/eleventh-century Cairene oculist. Little is known of his life or education except what can be gleaned from his only composition, Kitāb al-muntakhab fī ʿilm al-ʿayn (“The book of choice in ophthalmology”). Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa (d. 668/1270) provides the only medieval biographical note: ʿAmmār b. ʿAlī al-Mawṣilī was a famous oculist (kaḥḥāl) and well-known practitioner (muʿālij) , experienced in the treatment of eye diseases and skilled with procedures using the knife. He travelled to Egypt and
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Islam.
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ALei3442.pdf
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