Ibn Uthal
Ibn Uthal or Ibn Athal (Arabic: ابن أثال) was an Arab Christian who served as the personal physician of the caliph Mu'awiya I and was regarded as the most distinguished of the medical practitioners of the early Umayyad period. His medical knowledge can be considered a continuation of the tradition that existed in pre-Islamic Arabia. He was skilled in toxicology and was reportedly killed in a revenge attack.[1]
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- ^ Shahid, Irfan (2010). Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Part 2. Harvard University Press. pp. 179–181. ISBN 0884023478.
Categories:
- Physicians of medieval Islam
- Physicians of the Umayyad Caliphate
- Christians of the Umayyad Caliphate
- Court physicians
- People from Damascus
- Medieval Arab physicians
- Medieval Syrian physicians
- 7th-century physicians
- 7th-century Arabs
- Arab Christians