# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-zahrawi
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:27:18.876Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-zahrawi"
name: "Al-Zahrawi"
slug: "al-zahrawi"
description: "His surgical textbook ruled European medicine for five centuries, and some of the instruments he designed in tenth-century Córdoba are still in operating rooms today."
tagline: "Arab Andalusian physician, surgeon and chemist (936–1013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Al-Zahrawi_Portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "936"
deathDate: "1010"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.09
  momentum:             15
  historical:           21.92742
  currentAttention:     4.083333333333334
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 126
tags:
  - name: "Doctors"
    slug: "doctors"
  - name: "Doctor"
    slug: "doctor"
  - name: "Medicine"
    slug: "medicine"
  - name: "Philosophy"
    slug: "philosophy"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Zahrawi"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311495"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Al-Zahrawi"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF"
    title: "আল-জাহরাবি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Zahravi"
    title: "El-Zahravi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Az-Zahraw%C3%AD"
    title: "Az-Zahrawí"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%DB%95%DA%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "زەھراوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abulcasis"
    title: "Abulcasis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_al-Qasim"
    title: "Abu al-Qasim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_l-Qasim_(Mediziner)"
    title: "Abu l-Qasim (Mediziner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BB_%CE%96%CE%B1%CF%87%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B9"
    title: "Αλ Ζαχράουι"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abulkasizo"
    title: "Abulkasizo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abulcasis"
    title: "Abulcasis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abulkasis"
    title: "Abulkasis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85_%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "ابوالقاسم زهراوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_al-Qasim_al-Zahrawi"
    title: "Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Al-Qasim"
    title: "Abu Al-Qasim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abulcasis"
    title: "Abulcasis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95_%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%9D_%D7%90-%D7%96%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99"
    title: "אבו אל-קאסם א-זהראווי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%C3%BA_l-K%C3%A1szim_az-Zahr%C3%A1v%C3%AD"
    title: "Abú l-Kászim az-Zahráví"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AC-%D4%B6%D5%A1%D5%B0%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%BE%D5%AB"
    title: "Ալ-Զահրավի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_al-Qasim_al-Zahrawi"
    title: "Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_al-Qasim_al-Zahrawi"
    title: "Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%96%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%B6%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "アブー・アル＝カースィム・アッ＝ザフラウィー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Zahrawi"
    title: "Al-Zahrawi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "الزهراوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%8Fb%C3%BClqas%C4%B1m_%C9%99z-Z%C9%99hravi"
    title: "Əbülqasım əz-Zəhravi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Abū al-Qāsim al-Zahrāwī practiced medicine in al-Andalus during the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, working in an era when the Islamic world led in medical knowledge. His thirty-volume encyclopedia, the Kitab al-Tasrif, synthesized surgical techniques with an emphasis on practical procedure. The surgery volume, translated into Latin, became the standard teaching text across Europe for the next five hundred years. He pioneered catgut for internal stitching, identified hemophilia as hereditary, described abdominal pregnancy, and traced certain paralyses to spinal injury. He also designed instruments for cataract removal and Caesarean section. Al-Zahrāwī died in 1013, but his tools and methods carried forward — some still in clinical use a millennium later.