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Nafi ibn al-Harith bin Kalada al-Thaqafi (in Arabic نافع بن الحارث بن كلدة الثقفي ) (died 670 AD) was an Arab physician of the Banu Thaqif and was recommended by prophet Muhammad and treated Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas, and when Abu Bakr was dying, he designated his illness as poisoning.
Trained in Yemen ,[1], he is reported to have written a book named Dialog in Medicine. He was the chief physician and teacher at the Academy of Gundishapur in persia.
He was half brother of Nufay ibn al-Harith (also known as Abu Bakra bin Kalada al-Thaqafi at-Thaifi).
Reference
- ^ E. Browne, Islamic Medicine, 2002, p.11, ISBN 81-87570-19-9)
See also
- Family tree of Nafi ibn al-Harith
- Sahaba
External links
Medicine in the medieval Islamic world Physicians Concepts Works The Canon of Medicine • Anatomy Charts of the Arabs • The Book of Healing • Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye • De Gradibus • Al-Tasrif • Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi • Adab al-Tabib ("Practical Ethics of the Physician")
Centers Bimaristan • Nur al-Din Bimaristan • Al-'Adudi
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- Medieval Persian physicians
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