CONTRIBUTIONS OF IBN AL-KAFANI IN MEDICINE

Abstract

This topic deals with the scientific aspect of one of the Mamluk figures, this is Muhammad
Ibn Ibrahim, known as Ibn Al-Akfani (died: 749 AH / 1248 AD), who contributed to the
development of medical science. Because of his medical experience and practice, he was also
an encyclopedic who experienced more than one science. He is a doctor and researcher, a
scientist of wisdom, a mathematician, these sciences are the closest to mankind and have a
weight among the sciences of Muslims. This scientist lived in a period of stagnation on the
earth's sciences in general and medicine, especially after the Arab and Muslim scholars
illuminated the dark period, which was clouded by the Mongols (656 AH / 1258 AD), the
heritage of Arabs in this science moved to Europe.