Arabic in the Sciences
al-Taṣrīf: On Surgery
التصريف: مقالة الجراحة
Al-Zahrawi's illustrated treatise on surgery, translated by Gerard of Cremona, became one of medieval Europe's most respected surgery books, and made him known there as Abulcasis, a Latin rendering of his name Abu al-Qasim.
- Author
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Albucasis) (d. c. 1013)
- Field
- Medicine
- Arabic title
- التصريفُ لمن عجز عن التأليف (المقالة الثلاثون: في الجراحة)
- Latin title
- Chirurgia (Albucasis); printed as Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum
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Sources
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography: al-Zahrawi (encyclopedia.com)
- Arabic and Latin Corpus (Würzburg): Surgery, Latin (Gerard of Cremona; Strasbourg 1532)
- Strasbourg 1532 edition, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek digitised
- Spink & Lewis, Albucasis on Surgery and Instruments (University of California Press)
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