Ibn al-Kattani

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Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Ibn al-Kattani, sometimes nicknamed 'al-Mutatabbib' (the physician) (born in Córdoba in 951 and died in Saragossa in 1029) was well known as a scholar, philosopher, physician, astrologer, man of letters, and poet.

He wrote books on logic, inference and deduction. For some time he was the personal physician of Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, sultan of al-Andalus and wrote 'The Treatment of Dangerous Diseases Appearing Superficially on the Body' (Mu`alajat al-amrad al-khatirah al-badiyah `ala al-badan min kharij). It was cited by later writers but thought to be now lost until a copy of it was discovered among the manuscripts now at the National Library of Medicine. Poisonous bites are the subject of much of the treatise.

Al-Kattani also wrote an anthology of Andalusian poetry and became especially famous by his book on metaphor in Andalusian poetry.

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By Ibn al-Kittani:

• Kitab al-Tashbihat (translated by Wilhelm Hoenerbach 1973)

secondary literature in Spanish:

• Bosch Vilá, J.: El Oriente Árabe en el desarrollo de la cultura de la Marca Superior; Madrid, 1954.
• Tomeo Lacrué, M.: Biografía Cientifica de la Universidad de Zaragoza; Zaragoza, 1962.
• Martínez Loscos, C.: «Los orígenes de la Medicina en Aragón», Cuadernos de Historia J. Zurita, n.° 6-7, Zaragoza, 1958.

German

• Dichterische Vergleiche der Andalus-Araber. I und II by Wilhelm Hoenerbach
• Review: Farida Abu-Haidar, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 37, No. 2 (1974), p. 460