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, Ismāʿīl b. al-Ḥusain Abu ’l-Faḍāʾil, an Arab, physician, died 530 = 1135, composed in addition to smaller works two textbooks of medicine, one for ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī Arslān entitled al-Tad̲h̲kira al-As̲h̲rafīya fi ’l-Ṣināʿa al-Ṭibbīya (see de Slane, Catalogue des Mss. Arab. de la Bibl. Nat., N°. 29, 29955) and for the Ḵh̲wārizms̲h̲āh the Ḏh̲ak̲h̲īrat Ḵh̲wārizms̲h̲āh (Yeni Ḏj̲āmiʿ Kütübk̲h̲ānesinde maḥfūẓ kütüb mewd̲j̲ūdeñin defteri, N°. 915, 916); see Wüstenfeld, Arab. Arzte, N°. 165; Brockelmann, Gesch. d. arab. Lit., i. 487. (C. Brockelmann)

, dāʾūd b. ʿumar al-ḍarīr , Arab physician born at Antioch, son of the raʾīs of Ḳaryat Sīdī Ḥabīb al-Nad̲j̲d̲j̲ār, undertook, though blind, long journeys which led him also into Asia Minor. There he learnt Greek, on the advice of a Persian physician who had cured him of a malady from which he had long suffered, in order to be able to study the sources of medical science in the original texts. Later, he lived at Damascus and Cairo, and died in 1008/1599 at Mecca, after less than a year’s stay there. His chief work is a large, exhaustive medical hand-book in which he followed Ibn al-Bayṭār, named Tad̲h̲…