az-Zahrawi

A thousand years ago in Córdoba, a surgeon drew more than two hundred surgical instruments so that his knowledge would not be lost. The twenty-ninth book of Tracing the Scholars of Islam tells the story of az-Zahrawi: author of Kitab at-Tasrif, pioneer of dental, bladder-stone and childbirth surgery, and teacher of European surgeons for five centuries. “We have certainly created man in the best of stature.”