His name was included in a book on “Great Classes of Shafi’i Scholars ( Tabaqat al-Shafi’iyyin al-Kubra) by Taj al-Din al-Subki indicating his fame in religious law.

He lectured at al-Masruriyya School in Cairo. In addition to his medical studies, Ibn al-Nafis learnt Islamic religious law, and became a renowned expert on Shafi’i school of jurisprudence ( Fiqh). 1 – 3 He died in Cairo on December 17, 1288, at the age of 78, after an unknown illness. Towards the end of his life, Ibn al-Nafis donated his house and library to the newly established Al Mansouri Hospital, which was built in 1284 by the Mamluk Sultan al-Mansur Sayf al-Din Qalawun al-Alfi. He built a house in Cairo, and entertained rulers, leading physicians and colleagues.

He had a thriving practice and became wealthy. He became Chief of Physicians (Ra’is Al-Atibba’) in Egypt and the private physician for the Mamluk ruler Sultan Al-Zahir Baybars al-Bunduqdari, who ruled Egypt during the period 1260–1277. 2 Other contemporaries of Ibn al-Nafis were Ibn Abi Usaybi’a and Ibn al-Quff. Al-Dakhwar was appointed by al-Adil’s successor, al-Muazzam, as the head of the Nuri Hospital. Ibn al-Nafis teacher at that hospital was Muhadhdhab al-Din Abd al-Rhim ibn Ali Al-Dakhwar, who established al-Dakhwariyya Medical School in Damascus, and was the Chief of Physicians for Syria and Egypt during the rule of the Ayyubid ruler al-Adil. 1 His initial medical studies were in Damascus at the Great Nuri Hospital, Al-Bimaristan Al-Nuri Al-Kabir, built by the Turkish Prince Nur al-Din Mahmoud ibn Zanki after his conquest of Damascus in 1154.

His family originally came from Qarash, a village beyond the River Oxus, and that, according to some authors, gave him the “nisbah” of al-Qurashi. The Arab physician Ala’ al-Din ibn Abi al-Hazm, well known as Ibn al-Nafis, was born in the year 1210 in al-Qurashiyya, a village near Damascus, hence he was known as Al-Dimashqi.

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