Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi

Abū l-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʿAbbās al-Zahrāwī (in arabo أبو القاسم بن خلف بن العباس الزهراوي‎^?; latinizzato in Abulcasis o Albucasis; Madinat al-Zahra', 936 – Cordova, 1013) è stato un chirurgo, chimico e medico arabo, considerato il più grande chirurgo del Medioevo^[1] e il padre fondatore della chirurgia moderna.^[2]

Abu al-Qasim visse a Cordova, capitale del Califfato di Cordova, nella Spagna musulmana, nella stessa epoca in cui visse Avicenna, nel periodo di grande rivalità tra Baghdad l'abbaside e Cordova l'omayyade.

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- Josef W. Meri, Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2005, p. 783.
  «The greatest surgeon of the medieval ages was Abu'l-Qasim az Zahrawi (d. 1010), a most important representative of the Andalusian school.»
- Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science, Penguin Books Limited, 2015.
  «al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) was born in 936 near Cَrdoba, the metropolis of Andalusia, and worked there until his death in 1013. He was the greatest surgeon of the Middle Ages, and highly influential in Christian Europe.»
- E. Michael Gerli, Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003): An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2017, p. 12.
  «Book 30, on surgery, was translated in the twelfth century by Gerard of Cremona (Liber Alsahravi de cirurgia) and it established the reputation of Abulcasis as the greatest surgeon of the Middle Ages.»
^ Z. (St Thomas' Hospital) Ahmad, Al-Zahrawi - The Father of Surgery, in ANZ Journal of Surgery, vol. 77, Suppl. 1, 2007.