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Identification
al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munà b. Abī Naṣr al-Isrāʼīlī al-Hārūnī
الكوهين العطار، أبو المنى بن أبي نصر الإسرائيلي الهاروني
Dates
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Floruit
Expressed
Biographic comments
Jewish pharmacist who in 658/1260 wrote in Cairo "for himself and his son" a pharmacopoeia which became very widely spread (Minhāǧ al-dukkān). The work is a typical dispensatorium in which, after the Galenic example, the composite drugs are grouped according to classes.
Additional information
References
- Place Place of activity Cairo / al-Qāhira, Cairo Governatorate, EG
Bibliographical references
- Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Band 1: 492 on page 492
- Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Erster Su... on page 897
- Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, vi, 1.... on page 309-310
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, II Edition: V, 251a-252a on page V, 251a-252a