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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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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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