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| Born | 895 Kairouan, now Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia |
| Died | 979 (aged 84) Kairouan, now Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia |
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| Notable works | Zād al-Musāfir wa Quwwat-ul-Hadhir زاد المسافر وقوت الحاضر (Viaticum) |
Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Khālid ibn al-Jazzār al-Qayrawani (895–979) (Arabic: أبو جعفر أحمد بن أبي خالد بن الجزار القيرواني), was a 10th-century Muslim Arab physician who became famous for his writings on Islamic medicine.[1][2] He was born in Qayrawan in Tunisia.[3] He was known in Europe by the Latinized name Algizar.
- ^ Meisami, Julie Scott; Starkey, Paul (1998). Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415185721.
- ^ Mavroudi, Maria (2023), Stathakopoulos, Dionysios; Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros (eds.), "Arabic Terms in Byzantine Materia Medica: Oral and Textual Transmission", Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 130–183, doi:10.1017/9781009389792.005, ISBN 978-1-009-38979-2
- ^ MuslimHeritage.com – Muslim Scholars