IBN  USAIBI'A [Muwaffaquddin

Abu-l-'Abbas Ahmad ibn ul-Qasim ibn Abi Usaibi'a] (1203—1270), Arabian physician, was born at Damascus, the son of an oculist, and studied medicine at Damascus and Cairo . In 1236 he was appointed by Saladin physician to a new hospital in Cairo, but surrendered the appointment the following year to take up a post given him by the amir of Damascus in Salkhad near that city . There he lived and died . He wrote 'Uyun ul-Anba`fi Tabaqdt ul-Atibba' or " Lives of the Physicians," which in its first edition (1245—1246) was dedicated to the vizier of Damascus . This he enlarged, though it is uncertain whether the new edition was made public in the lifetime of the author . Edition by A . Muller (Konigsberg, 1884) . (G . W .