Abu al Qasim al Zahrawi explained by Ali Al khamas
Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (
936–1013), (
Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي) also known in the
West as Albucasis, was an
Arab Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus. He is considered the greatest medieval surgeon to have appeared from the
Islamic World, and has been described by many as the father of modern surgery.[1] His greatest contribution to medicine is the
Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices.[2] His pioneering contributions to the field of surgical procedures and instruments had an enormous impact in the
East and West well into the modern period, where some of his discoveries are still applied in medicine to this day.[3]