IslHornAfr

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Identification

al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munà b. Abī Naṣr al-Isrāʼīlī al-Hārūnī الكوهين العطار، أبو المنى بن أبي نصر الإسرائيلي الهاروني

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  • Floruit

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Biographic comments

Jewish pharmacist who in 658/1260 wrote in Cairo "for himself and his son" a pharmacopoeia which became very widely spread (Minhāǧ al-dukkān). The work is a typical dispensatorium in which, after the Galenic example, the composite drugs are grouped according to classes.

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