الوصف
For five centuries, his work was the definitive text for every surgeon in the Western world. Yet, the name of Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi has been largely forgotten.Born into the intellectual zenith of 10th-century al-Andalus, al-Zahrawi served as the Royal Physician in the magnificent Caliphate of Cordoba. He inherited a medical landscape where surgery was a base craft practiced by barbers and bone-setters, deemed beneath the learned physician.