Dawud al-Antaki
Dawud Ibn 'Umar al-Antaki or David of Antioch was a blind Syrian Christian physician and pharmacist active in Cairo.
After the hey-day of medicine in the medieval Islamic world and after the work of Ibn Al-Nafis, Daud Al-Antaki was one of three great names in the field of Arabic medicine in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries CE, alongside the Iraqi scholar Yusuf Ibn Ismail Al-Kutbi and the Turkish doctor Khadir Ibn Ali Hajji Basa. The seminal western historian of Arabic medicine Lucien Leclerc considered Al-Antaki "dernier représentant de la médecine arabe."Works
The Tadhkira
He is known primarily for an Arabic language reference work on medicine, natural history and the occult sciences called the Tadhkira.The Tayzin
Daud al-Antaki is also traditionally ascribed as the author of the collection of chaste love poetry the Tazyin. This contains some commentary on Christian Arab traditions.
