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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Ramon Llull, Ibn al-Nafis, Muhammad Loutfi Goumah, Suleiman Mousa, Zakaria Tamer, Taha Hussein, Nathalie Handal, Assia Djebar, Ali Bader, Ya'qub Bilbul, Sayyid Al-Qemany, Ghada al-Samman, Ahmed Shawqi, Ra'ouf Mus'ad, Ihsan Abdel Quddous, Nabil Lahlou, Awn Alsharif Qasim, Muhammad Aladdin, Salama Moussa, Anton Shammas, Ibn Qutaybah, Bashar Abdulah, Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, Khalil Mutran, Gamal El-Ghitani, Ibrahim ibn ar-Raqiq, Ulfat Idilbi, Ahmed Alaidy, Samar Samir Mezghanni, Gisele Halimi, Ahdaf Soueif, Nasif Al-Yaziji, Anselm Turmeda, Haifa Zangana, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, Samir Naqqash, Siham Benchekroun, Haidar Haidar, Ibrahim Al-Yazigi, Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi, Omar Abu-Riche, Fatima Gallaire, Leila Abouzeid, Alifa Rifaat, Muhammed Taib, Hamza Bogary, Kamel Riahi, Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, Raouf Salama Moussa, Mohamed Ghozzi, Ahmad al-Qalqashandi, Omar Taher, Nadia Chafik, Hanna Al-Fakhoury, Tahir Wattar, List of Arabic language writers. Excerpt: Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (Arabic: ), known as Ibn al-Nafis (Arabic: ), was an Arab physician who is mostly famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. He was born in 1213 in Damascus. He attended the Medical College Hospital (Bimaristan Al-Noori) in Damascus. Apart from medicine, Ibn al-Nafis learned jurisprudence, literature and theology. He became an expert on the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence and an expert physician. In 1236, Al-Nafis moved to Egypt. He worked at the Al-Nassri Hospital, and subsequently at the Al-Mansouri Hospital, where he became chief of physicians and the Sultan's personal physician. When he died in 1288, he donated his house, library and clinic to the Mansuriya Hospital. The opening page of one of Ibn al-Nafis's ...
