Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili
Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili ( Arabic عمار بن علي الموصلي, DMG ʿAmmār b. ʿAlī al-Mauṣilī ; also al-Musali , Latinized Canamusali ) was a contemporary of Ali ibn Isa in Mosul ( Mawsil ) in the 10th century . As an ophthalmologist, he traveled extensively and finally settled in Egypt. He dedicated his work "Muntahab" ( ophthalmology ) to Sultan al-Hakim, who ruled from 996 to 1020 . With 48 diseases described in it, it is shorter than Isa's “memory book for ophthalmologists” , but is considered more witty. His reports of operations on cataracts are gripping , including a radical operation of the soft star by sucking out the lens with a self-invented hollow needle.
He is therefore also called the inventor of the injection needle .
His name was in the "Liber quem composuit Canamusali philosophus de Baldach" ("Book that the philosopher C. from Baghdad put together").
literature
- Eckhard Neubauer: Ammar b. Ali al-Mausili (4th / 10th cent.) And Ali ibn Isa (5th / 10th cent.) ; University of Frankfurt ( Ammar b. Ali al-Mausili: The book of the selection of eye diseases ; Volume 2 of Die Arabischen Augenärzte edited from the sources, translated from Arabic manuscripts and explained by J. Hirschberg, J. Lippert and E. Wednesday. Leipzig 1905)
- Rudolf Fischer: Egypt's poet and writer ; P. 41
- Friedrun R. Hau: ʿAmmār ibn ʿAlī al-Mauṣilī. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 51.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Canamusali (Latinized) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | medieval ophthalmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 9th century or 10th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 10th century or 11th century |