This title presents an account of the life and legacy of the most influential physician of medieval Muslim Spain. Ibn Zuhr (or Avenzoar) of twelfth-century Seville was the most important physician of Muslim Spain. His family boasted six generations of physicians, and also included midwives, jurists, poets, and viziers. His "Kitab al-taysir", a compendium of therapeutics, was translated into Latin and Hebrew; its Latin version, "Liber Teisir", served as a companion book to the "Colliget", the Latin translation of "Kitab al-kulliyat", a largely theoretical book of the philosopher - physician Ibn Rushd (Averroes). The rabbi - physician Maimonides quoted extensively from Ibn Zuhr and considered him "unique in his age and one of the great sages."But Ibn Zuhr was not just a keen observer of patients and a dispenser of remedies: buried within his generally dry narrative are candid recollections and views on a variety of subjects and of his society. And his medical recipes could be compared to currents forms of alternative medicine. Together, his holistic app...