Al-Dakhwar

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, but afterward he studied medicine with Ibn al-Matran.

Physician of the Ayyubids In 1208, al-Adil, the Sultan of Egypt, told his vizier al-Sahib ibn Shukur, that he was in need of another physician with the equivalent skill of the chief of medicine at the time, Abd al-Aziz al-Sulami. Al-Adil believed that al-Sulami was busy enough serving as physician of the army. Ibn Shukur recommended al-Dakhwar for the post and offered him 30 dinars a month. Al-Dakhwar turned him down, citing that al-Sulami receives 100 dinars a month and stating "I know my ability in this field and I will not take less!" Al-Sulami died on June 7 and soon after al-Dakhwar himself came into contact with al-Adil,

Books Medicine al-Janinah ("The Embryo") Sharh Taqdimat-il-Ma'rifah ("Commentary on the Introduction of Knowledge") Mukhtasar-ul-Hawl-il-Razi ("Resume of al-Hawi by al-Razi")

Poetry Kitab ul-Aghani (a summarized version of "The Book of Songs" by al-Isfahani)