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Al-Dakhwar
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Muhadhdhabuddin Abd al-Rahim bin Ali bin Hamid al-Dimashqi () known as al-Dakhwar () (1170–1230) was a leading Arab physician who served various rulers of the Ayyubid dynasty. He was also administratively responsible for medicine in Cairo and Damascus. Al-Dakhwar educated or influenced most of the prominent physicians of Egypt and Syria in the century, including writer Ibn Abi Usaibia and Ibn al-Nafis, the discoverer of blood circulation in the human body.
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- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1946-04-13
Discography
- Back Up Train1967
- Green Is Blues1969
- Gets Next to You1971
- Let’s Stay Together1972
- I’m Still in Love With You1972
- Call Me1973
- Livin’ for You1973
- Explores Your Mind1974
- Al Green Is Love1975
- Full of Fire1976
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- 1170-00-00
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- 1230-00-00
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- Physician of the Ayyubids
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- Medicine
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Muhadhdhabuddin Abd al-Rahim bin Ali bin Hamid al-Dimashqi () known as al-Dakhwar () (1170–1230) was a leading Arab physician who served various rulers of the Ayyubid dynasty. He was also administratively responsible for medicine in Cairo and Damascus. Al-Dakhwar educated or influenced most of the prominent physicians of Egypt and Syria in the century, including writer Ibn Abi Usaibia and Ibn al-Nafis, the discoverer of blood circulation in the human body.
==Early life== Al-Dakhwar was born and brought up in Damascus as the son of an oculist. Initially, he too was an oculist at the Nuri Hospital of Damascus, but afterward he studied medicine with Ibn al-Matran.
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